To a greater extent than Clayton is perhaps willing to admit, this disruption has made him the kind of cynical prude who reflexively says things like “Love! What balderdash!”. Ten years before, he’d been betrothed to marry the couple’s oldest girl, Audrey, when she’d scandalized both his family and her own by suddenly eloping with a preacher and leaving the country for parts unknown. When readers meet him in the opening pages of Forever My Duke, the second book in Olivia Drake’s “Unlikely Duchesses” series, he’s on his way to marry his 18-year-old cousin Lady Ellen, daughter of Lord and Lady Godwin, long-time friends of his family. Before he’s even 30 years old, Hadrian Ames, the Duke of Clayton, is as hardened a cynic as any nobleman three times his age.
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