The Duke's Masked Wife
The baron’s daughter, Alessandra Barrett, has worn a mask from a young age due to an injury. Many say if you were to see the face behind the mask, you would be cursed and die soon afterward. She is seen as a ghost, avoided by all who visit the baron's home until she becomes the duke’s wife. No one could understand why the duke would pick such a wife. Did he wish to die? What would become of the girl who once hid in the shadows but now had the spotlight on her as the duke’s masked wife? What would everyone say if they were to learn the truth that she was in a contracted marriage with the duke? Tales of Castro Nobility story timeline order - The King’s Unbreakable Wife The Knight’s Mysterious Maid The Duke’s Masked Wife
The boy and his butler (2)
Edgar looked around the room, which he hated more than the girl his mother kept bringing around their home, saying he was meant to marry her in the future. Heather was her name.
The room assigned to him at the school his mother had sent him to was much smaller than the rooms he had at all of his parent's homes and even his grandparent's home.
It had been three days since his mother sent him on a carriage to be here while she went to who knew where to look after herself. She could have sent him to stay with his grandmother, but since the two of them did not get along, he was sent here.
His mother feared that his grandmother was getting in his ear and saying bad things about her. She was right, but Edgar wished she realised her own actions had made him think poorly of her. Not what her grandmother had said.