No One Had Made the Duke Laugh in 10 Years — Until the Maid Hit a Thief With a Soup Pot

On her third night at Ravensmoor Hall, kitchen maid Ida Pike hears a crash in the dark and finds a masked thief stuffing the family silver into a sack. She grabs the big copper soup pot and swings. The thief goes down with a clang, and Emeric Thorne, the grave Duke of Ravensmoor, does something no one has seen in ten years. He laughs. But the thief whispers that someone inside the house let him in, and from that night Ida is a marked woman. A silver candlestick turns up in her bed. A secret ledger vanishes. A spiteful lady and a cold-handed steward make a deadly bargain. And at the harvest ball, in front of forty guests, a king's diamond brooch is found in Ida's apron pocket. Can the duke she taught to laugh find the truth before a judge sends her to the rope? This is a full-length Regency romance narration of a fearless maid, a grieving duke, a framed theft, and a love that began with a pot of leek soup. #DukeRomance #RegencyRomance #HistoricalRomance #PeriodDrama #CleanRomance #SlowBurnRomance #MaidAndDuke #RomanceAudiobook #RomanceNarration #LoveStory #FramedMaid #RegencyEra #HappilyEverAfter #EnglishCountryHouse #TheMaidAndTheDuke regency romance, duke romance audiobook, maid and duke romance, kitchen maid romance story, duke who never laughed, soup pot thief story, framed maid romance, Ravensmoor Hall, Westmorland romance, Kendal gaol story, stolen silver mystery, diamond brooch scandal, clean historical romance, slow burn duke romance, grieving widower duke, wicked steward villain, courtroom proposal romance, full length romance narration, period drama story, the maid and the duke