Every Duke Has His Thorn

Nicholas Barton, Duke of Preston, returns to England upon the death of his mother, an overbearing woman who attempted to control the activities of her only child. After a disastrous month spent in London avoiding matchmaking mamas, the duke returns to his ancestral home, Barton Hall, in Lancashire. He finds the house rundown and the estate in shambles.
Miss Marina Davies, daughter of renowned architect Sir Robert Davies, has no time for the aristocracy. Her deceased mother was the daughter o...