🌹 “PAPA CALLED YOUR NAME IN HIS SLEEP.” AND THE DUKE WENT PALE.

She Defied the Duke at the Fête — Until His Daughter Whispered, “My Papa Called Your Name in His Sleep.” 🌿

She was a governess, a "ghost in gray," defined by her iron-clad restraint. He was the "Pariah Duke," a cold, untouchable widower, hiding behind his grief. But when an innocent whisper—"My papa calls your name in his dream"—ignites a "brutally honest" tension, their worlds are set to collide.

What happens when a woman of iron-clad control is finally, truly seen? Follow Leonora Vale, a woman who expects to be invisible. She meets Lionel Kingston, the Duke, a reclusive widower who supposedly lost his heart six years ago. Bound by a past he won't speak of, he is the cold, marble statue of society's rumors... until a violent storm traps them together. It's not a romance; it's a "collision." A single, catastrophic, life-altering "mistake" in the library that night.

The morning after, she is a ruined woman. He is silent.

As weeks pass, her shame turns to a new, "brutally honest" terror: she is sick. She is pregnant. And he is gone. Believing she was just a "mistake," she is dismissed in disgrace, exiled to the country to hide her secret. He fled, a "coward" running from his feelings.

This is a story of a love that defies reputation, of finding the real person behind the public scandal. It's about a man who must prove his love is a "Pure Choice"... before he learns about the heir he doesn't know exists. With "slow-burn" emotional storytelling, it invites you to believe that the most "earned" love is the one that forces a "brutally honest," honor-driven reckoning.

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