The Foolish Duke

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>All she wants is to marry for love...</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>     Della Rowntree has always longed for a marriage like her parents' one that is filled with happiness and love. But now that the man she has always desired is on the verge of announcing his engagement to another she fears the opportunity to marry for love has vanished and will condemn her to a lifetime of being called a spinster.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>For him love is out of the question...</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>     The Duke of Exeter Royce Derrington witnessed his mother's heartache at his father's passing and decided that marrying for love was foolish. Why would someone subject themselves to an emotion that would only destroy them when they lost it?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>     That question made his soon-to-be-announced engagement the only way to prevent that from happening. So when he discovers an unknown last request amongst his late father's documents he worries about the potential complications it could pose to the type of marriage he wants. </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>But when emotions run high could it be that...</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>what we think we </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)><em>want</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>...is not always what we </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)><em>need</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>?</span></p><p><br></p>