For the Love of a Duchess by Bridget Barton

Rating:  ⭐⭐⭐
This story starts out as a nightmare for Eliza. Her father sells her to a Duke in marriage to save his estate, even though she is engaged to a baron's son. Her fiance then refuses to marry her because her father is penniless. She has to marry a man 35 years her senior. Her husband after 3 months of marriage starts accusing her that it is her fault she is not pregnant yet. It only gets worse from there. Enters Daniel, the duke's attorney, who put himself in the way to save Eliza from being harmed. I've never quite read a novel like this. It is well written and thought out including traditions and society's rules are taken into consideration. I continued reading this book just so I could see how the author was going to write her way out of the predicament she had these characters in.