The Duke's Time Traveling Bride: She Fell Through Time. A Regency Time Traveling Romance.
Hayes, Ashley
Synopsis "The Duke's Time Traveling Bride: She Fell Through Time. A Regency Time Traveling Romance."
She spent eleven days cleaning the duke's wedding portrait. It took one evening to find the secret hidden underneath. London, 1957. Meg Hale is the best conservator the Farleigh Gallery has never heard of. For six years her work has gone out under another man's signature, and she has almost learned not to mind. Then, alone after hours with the Third Duke of Farleigh's 1817 wedding portrait, she lifts a corner of the bride's veil and finds another painting underneath. A different hand. A secret kept for a hundred and forty years. She wakes in 1817. She is in another woman's coach, wearing another woman's pelisse and the rubies of a duke's dead mother. Before the week is out, she is married to a man she has known for sixteen hours, under a roof that is not her own, in a century that is not her own. Alistair Vaughn, Duke of Farleigh, needed a bride with a fortune. What he has instead is a stranger who dates furniture at a glance, argues like no gentlewoman he has ever met, and will not say where she came from. He should send her to the magistrate. Instead he finds himself keeping her secrets before he even knows what they are. Meg is certain of only two things. Somewhere beneath the varnish of that wedding portrait is the truth about the Farleigh bride. And whatever pulled her through a hundred and forty years to find it is not finished with her yet. The portrait was a lie. The marriage was real. The Duke's Time-Traveling Bride is a standalone Regency time-travel romance featuring a marriage of convenience, a heroine out of time, a duke who asks instead of assumes, a mystery hidden in a painting, and a guaranteed happy ever after. No cliffhangers, no cheating.
