A Cinderella He Never Expected: A Historical Regency Romance Novel (Era of Scandals #3)
Martha Barwood
“He came to escape his title.
He didn’t expect to lose his heart.”
When Henry, Duke of Thornfield, flees London under a false name, he wants only one thing: freedom.
No expectations.
No responsibilities.
No one calling him Your Grace.
Just one quiet week in the countryside.
Instead, he finds her.
Eliza Bright has no time for charming strangers.
She is too busy holding her family, and her failing inn, together with sheer will. With her father ill and a ruthless creditor closing in, survival is not optional.
And men like Henry Ward?
They pass through. They always do.
But Henry doesn’t leave.
He lingers.
He tries (and fails) to help.
He makes her laugh, when she has forgotten how.
And with every passing day, the truth he’s hiding grows more dangerous.
Because Henry is not who he claims to be.
And when Eliza discovers that the man she’s begun to trust… is a duke who could change everything.
She will have to decide:
Can she risk her heart on a lie?
Or will the truth ruin them both?
