💔 SHE LOOKED UP IN SHOCK — THE DUKE’S MOTHER HAD JUST SAID “PRETEND YOU’RE MY SON’S CHOSEN BRIDE.”

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In the rigid world of Victorian London, where a woman's worth is measured by her dowry and her connections, one invisible woman was given an impossible choice: perform a lie that could elevate her—or refuse and lose everything.
💔 Elinor Fairbourne was nobody. A companion. A clerk. A woman so unremarkable that society had rendered her nearly transparent. She survived through silence, propriety, and the careful erasure of her own desires. But then the Dowager Duchess of Ashford summoned her with a demand that would shatter the fragile world she had built.
✨ "Pretend to be my son's chosen bride," the Dowager commanded. "For eight weeks. Nothing more."
Eight weeks of deception. Eight weeks of standing beside Alistair Hartwell, the powerful, guarded Duke of Ashford—a man burdened by duty, trapped by inheritance politics, and utterly alone despite his title. Eight weeks of being watched, judged, and constantly threatened with exposure by those who would weaponize the truth.
But what began as coercion became something neither of them anticipated.
🎭 As Elinor learned to navigate the glittering drawing rooms and treacherous whispers of the ton, as she stood beside the Duke in galleries and ballrooms, something shifted. The performance became intimate. The pretense became genuine. The woman society deemed worthless discovered that she possessed a worth that had nothing to do with station or family—it had only to do with being truly seen by someone who mattered.
And the Duke discovered that the deepest form of honor is not found in the fulfillment of duty, but in the granting of freedom—and in the profound grace of being chosen despite having the power to compel.
💎 This is a story about transformation. About what happens when a lie becomes the only path to truth. About a woman who arrived as fiction and became, through the quiet courage of genuine choice, something absolutely real. About two people who learned that the most powerful commitment is not the one we are forced to make, but the one we choose, again and again, even when we have been granted the freedom to leave.
⚠️ But can a love born from deception ever truly be authentic? Can the crossed-out entry in a marriage register be rewritten with ink that will not fade?
Watch as Elinor and Alistair discover that the answer lies not in the origin of their connection, but in the choice they make to honor it.

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