She Didn’t Bother Fixing Her Hair to Meet Her Father's Guest — She Did Not Know He Was the Duke

📚 My three novels + audiobooks — the longest story I've ever written: https://timelesslovebooks.com 🎧 Listen to every story on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2AdKU4bOYk72dNKYlmZp0L Harriet Wickridge had kept every name in her village safe for ten years. A rector's daughter on the wild Dorset coast, she copied worn gravestones before the sea could take them and quietly held the pen for a father who could no longer see the page. So when a storm tore her hair loose in the churchyard, she did not trouble to tidy it before meeting her father's guest. He had only come to look at old books. But the quiet gentleman in the muddy coat had come about a forgotten daughter of the great house — a girl whose portrait had been turned to face the wall a lifetime ago. And when Harriet opened the old register for him, she found a page someone had scraped away and written over. Morning after morning she taught him to read the brown ink, and he listened as no gentleman ever had. She did not know who he was. She was about to find out. For a gracious lady from Weymouth wanted that page to say something it never said, and she had found Harriet's own secret to use against her. With her father's church and her good name at stake, and a whole county ready to believe the worst, Harriet would have to decide whether to stay silent — or to stand up before all of them and trust the one man she was not sure she could forgive. A tender regency tale of a woman who never arranged herself for anyone, and the man who loved her exactly as she was. Sit back, relax, and let this story carry you to the candlelit ballrooms and great houses of old England. ▶ If you love slow-burn regency and historical romance and dramatic period stories, subscribe and turn on the bell so you never miss a new tale. 💬 Tell us in the comments: which city are you watching from, and how did Harriet's story make you feel? #regencyromance #historicalromance #perioddrama #dukeromance #disguisedduke #hiddenidentity #cleanromance #slowburnromance #regencyera #rectorsdaughter #forbiddenlove #historicalfiction #lovestory #romancestory #narratedstory #bedtimestory #truelove #regencyhistorical #englishcoast #oldengland Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. All characters, names, places, and events are entirely fictional and the product of creative storytelling. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, or to actual events is purely coincidental. This story and its narration are produced with the assistance of AI tools for entertainment purposes only.