The Duke and the Unknown Lady

A Historical Regency Romance Novel

Forced into a brutal engagement to save her family from ruin, Lady Elinor Fairleigh knows marriage may cost her life. Disguised as a maid, she flees into the night, only for her escape to end in darkness and injury. When she awakens with no memory of who she is, her past becomes a shadow she cannot outrun and her present a challenge to her heart…

Julian Harrowby, Duke of Redcliffe, lives by duty, bound to his mines and the people who depend on him. When he finds an unconscious young woman at the bottom of one of his shafts, he offers protection, believing her to be a servant with nowhere else to turn. Yet, as her quiet strength unsettles him, will he resist feelings he never intended to take hold of him?

Drawn together by secrecy and unspoken longing, Elinor and Julian find comfort where neither expected it. However, suspicion, hidden enemies, and a past determined to resurface threaten what slowly grows between them. When danger closes in and trust is tested, love may demand more than either is prepared to give…

"The Duke and the Unknown Lady" is a historical romance novel of approximately 60,000 words. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a guaranteed happily ever after.

Tropes: Amnesia, Disguised Identity, Class Differences

AI reading was barely tolerable

The story was cute enough, but the AI reading was stilted, didn’t seem to pay much attention to punctuation and the voice inflection was consistently inappropriate for the given situation or emotion that would have been projected with an actual person reading. I will definitely stay away from any AI narrated books for a very long time.

Mine! It’s a pun - you will see!

Interesting story. Full of different twists that are not too familiar. Developed at a good pace. Enjoyable listen. Virtual voice was ok; no glaring mistakes.