![]() Their happiness is threatened further when a bigoted local solicitor seeks to have Robert declared incompetent and to act as guardian over the Rothhaven estate. ![]() When Robert proposes marriage, Constance accepts, but her brother, Quinton, Duke of Walden, is wary of the kind of life she’ll have with a man who has debilitating seizures and urges Constance to share her scandalous secret with Robert before the wedding. ![]() Their rekindled friendship soon blossoms into sweet, believable romance. Ten years later, the Wentworth family has come into money and titles, and Robert is surprised to see Constance at a ball hosted by her sister. There he befriended Constance Wentworth, who was working as a maid after having fled her family home under scandalous circumstances. Robert Rothmere, Duke of Rothhaven, was confined to an asylum as an adolescent due to his epilepsy. ![]() Burrowes reunites two characters who have been unfairly judged by Regency society in her powerful and sensitive fifth Rogues to Riches romance (after A Duke by Any Other Name). ![]()
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