She was jilted by his brother. She never knew the duke had wanted her first.
The Duke Who Married the Wrong Woman
Eleven years ago, his brother left her at the altar.
She never knew the wrong Harcourt had proposed.
At eighteen, Miss Clara Whitcombe was three days away from marrying Lord Adrian Harcourt when her bridegroom disappeared without explanation.
London never forgot.
Neither did Clara.
Now twenty-nine, she has built a life beyond the whispers, marriage is the last thing she wants—and Adrian Harcourt is suddenly dead.
His elder brother has come home.
Sebastian Harcourt, Duke of Ashcombe, discovers that Adrian left behind more than debts and unanswered questions. An altered will, a missing fortune and an old family secret suggest that Clara may have been cheated of an inheritance worth nearly forty thousand pounds.
There is one inconvenient way Sebastian can protect her claim.
Marry her.
Clara has already been abandoned by one Harcourt, and she has no intention of trusting another. But with her father’s home at risk and her mother’s missing fortune finally within reach, she agrees to a marriage of convenience with carefully negotiated rules.
Separate rooms. Separate lives. No expectations.
And this time, no Harcourt will ever leave her standing alone.
There is only one thing Sebastian neglects to mention.
He was in love with Clara before his brother ever proposed to her.
As their practical marriage begins to feel dangerously real, Clara discovers that the reserved duke remembers things no indifferent man should remember: her favorite flowers, the rooms she prefers, a broken slipper ribbon from eleven years ago.
And somewhere at a neglected Sussex estate lies proof that the story Clara has believed about herself for more than a decade may never have been true.
Because Clara Whitcombe was never the wrong woman.
She was simply chosen by the wrong brother first.
The Duke Who Married the Wrong Woman is Book One in
The Ladies of the Last Chance Club
, an interconnected series of clean Regency romances featuring overlooked heroines, powerful gentlemen who fall first, marriage bargains, scandal, female friendship, slow-burning attraction and deeply satisfying happily-ever-afters.
