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    The Sweet Bride
    The Sweet Bride
    The Sweet Bride
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    The Sweet Bride

    By Roxie Brandon

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    Emma Emerson has no interest in the man who wants to marry her. On a visit to her uncle's estate, she unexpectedly meets Duke Roger Randall under precarious circumstances. The Duke falls for Emma and is indebted to her but his mother, the Duchess of Kent, sees Emma as a gold-digger.

    When a scandal emerges involving Emma, the Duke fights his mother trying to defend the only woman he has ever loved.

    Enjoy this clean and wholesome Regency romance with a sweet happily ever after!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRoxie Brandon
    Release dateJan 29, 2021
    ISBN9781005737603
    The Sweet Bride
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    Roxie Brandon

    Roxie Brandon is an author of historical and contemporary romance, beauty and fashion books.Her romances range in setting from Medieval times to the Twentieth Century.She loves walks in the countryside and having afternoon tea with family and friends.

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      The Sweet Bride - Roxie Brandon

      The

      Sweet Bride

      Copyright © 2021 Roxie Brandon All Rights Reserved

      This book is a work of fiction. The characters, events, and places portrayed in this book are products of the author’s imagination and are either fictitious or are used fictitiously. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended by the author.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      Chapter Eleven

      Chapter Twelve

      Chapter Thirteen

      Chapter Fourteen

      CHAPTER ONE

      The war was difficult for everybody. Not only did the poor suffer but the rich and wealthy did too. No one had ever expected it to stretch out so long and spread so far, but it did. The rich became poor, the poor became poorer and the most valuable thing of all, the hope and determination of the people of Essex had slowly faded away.

      Homes were abolished as they took the role of being battlegrounds and hideouts, crops had withered down to dust without receiving the care they needed and many young men had died. It had cost Essex a great deal and building up from it had proved to be a mammoth task for everybody in the community.

      Twenty years later and retired, Admiral Richard Emerson was still struggling to provide for his family. There were many days after the war in which the children had to be fed from a single plate as they could not afford to feed them anything more and while they were still young, they’d be asked to go to bed without dinner.

      Today, the conditions of the household were a little better since the economy had become stable, but still they were considered poor and to this day, they were shackled to poverty; the reigns still a little too tight. Generally being a poor man alone would not have bothered anyone as much as it did to a man with a family to look after.

      The weight of responsibilities sat heavily on the admiral’s shoulders. His family needed him and he felt that he had already let them down many times throughout the years; sometimes this feeling would stay with him for weeks as he thought that every minute passing by, he was failing. Despite the hardships, he considered himself a lucky man, being a father to three well-raised kids and a beautiful loyal wife.

      When left alone to his thoughts, he often felt he did not deserve them. Many times he had wished they would leave him, but his wife Elizabeth would remind him of their vows, ‘for better or for worse’ and with that his love and respect for her only grew. Their love story was quite unique on its own.

      Before Richard Emerson had left to join the Navy, he and Elizabeth Hopkins had begun to visit each other as they were neighbors. He had asked to speak with her once at an evening dinner when he first saw her and immediately knew he needed to know her better.

      Ever since then they had grown close and he had proposed to her without a second thought. The war had come unexpectedly and Richard, being the graceful man he was, allowed Elizabeth to leave him if he did not come back or if he was gone too long. Elizabeth had refused and had promised to wait for him.

      Admiral Richard Emerson came back after two years and to his surprise he found that Elizabeth had faithfully waited for him all those days in his absence. In the following week, they were married and they couldn’t have been happier. The war however, was still not over, a sneak attack had harmed the country at a greater level and once again Admiral Richard Emerson had to depart from his wife. It was this last war that had cost everybody so much more, the damage had been far too great to re-compensate and when the Admiral returned, he did so with barely nothing in his hands, only his life and his wedding ring. He knew love was all they’d ever need in life, but was it ever going to be enough?

      CHAPTER TWO

      Being of such a poor status was harmful in more ways than one, even though now they could afford suitable food and wear ordinary clothes from the small job Admiral Richard Emerson now had; he desired for his only daughter to be wed into a rich and able family. But because of their current rank he

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