The Duke Who Didn't (Wedgeford Trials, #1)

by Courtney Milan

She was not thinking about his damnable thighs.

“It’s not foreign. That sauce was fermented here, with yeasts found in Wedgeford. The idea came from here. It was made here. If tea is British, this sauce is British. If this sauce is British, I am British, and my wife is British, and my children will be British. I need not change myself to belong. I already belong; it is the rest of England that is out of step.”

The first page was the list she’d just started this morning. What Duchesses Do, it said. He wrote beneath it in large, square capitals: WHATEVER DUCHESSES WANT.