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First in the series. Headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her husband's mysterious suicide and lost everything - her newborn son, her fortune, and her freedom. Falseley imprisoned, she is only able to be with her son when the secret society The Widow's Grace manages to have her hired as her son's nanny, working for her dead husband's cousin Busick Strathmore, Duke of Repington. But working for the Duke comes with its own perils. Riley researched multiracial life in the Georgian and Regency period and blends real life characters and events with her fiction. Enthralling historical fiction with mystery, romance, and smart literary allusions. Zebra Books. 2020. Paper. NEW. $14.00 Show more