The Duke's Overlooked Lady (Inconvenient Courtships #2)

"She kept an entire household standing. No one ever thought to catch her when she fell."

Elowen Vane has made an art of being needed and unseen at once.

She pays her charming brother’s debts with her own name, holds a dying house together on cold tea and sheer will, and pours herself a cup every morning only to let it go cold, because there is always something nearer her hand than her own comfort.

Then her brother gives her away for the season, as easily as lending out a book he has finished, and Elowen packs the whole of her life into a single case and goes.

Marcombe is the grandest house she has ever entered, and it is quietly falling apart.

The housekeeper lies senseless. Forty servants stand frozen.

A frightened girl must be brought out before the whole county, and no one is holding any of it together.

So Elowen takes the keys, as she always does, and by morning she has dragged a great broken house back from the brink.

Lucian, the Duke of Marcombe, has been called an institution more often than a man.

Cold, guarded, and armoured against a world that only ever wants something from him, he comes down to find his home transformed by a woman he never hired, who tells him the truth to his face and asks him for nothing at all.

He does not know what to do with a woman who wants nothing from him.

She does not know what to do with a man who will not stop seeing her.

A duke does not lose his heart to his aunt’s companion. Society forbids it. Her pride forbids it more. But the longer Lucian watches this quiet, unbreakable woman spend herself for everyone but herself, the more fiercely he wants to be the one thing she never let herself hope for.

Elowen Vane has saved everyone who ever needed her.

No one has ever thought to save her.

A tender, completely clean Regency romance of quiet courage, found belonging, and a woman who spent herself on everyone but herself. A standalone clean regency romance novel with a guaranteed happily-ever-after.

No cheating. No cliffhangers. Just a beautifully earned happily ever after.