Heir to The Duke: Regency Wallflower Finds Her Bloom and Catches the Eye of a Brooding Duke: 1 [Mass Market Paperback] Ashford, Jane

A wallflower with no prospects. A duke who's sworn off Society. A country house party where everything changes. Miss Harriet Finch has accepted her fate: she's too plain, too poor, and too awkward for the marriage mart. The Duke of Salbridge has his own reasons for avoiding London's ballrooms — grief, duty, and a crumbling estate that demands all his attention. When circumstance throws them together at a rambling manor in the countryside, Harriet discovers she has opinions (and the duke discovers he enjoys hearing them). What starts as reluctant conversation becomes something neither expected: a connection that defies every rule they've been taught about their places in the world. Jane Ashford writes Regency romance with emotional depth and characters who feel refreshingly real. If you want ballgowns and banter with actual stakes, sharp dialogue, and a slow-burn that earns its payoff, this delivers.