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Despite being the eldest of her siblings, an imminent marriage did not fit into Elizabeth's plans. She was clear that, in the long term, it was the logical thing for a woman of her class, and in that century, but, just as she was convinced of it, she also knew that she would never marry for love. She had witnessed her mother's suffering after her father's death, and she swore to herself that she would never fall in love with her. What she didn't count on was the goings-on of her grandfather. Overnight her future placed her far from London to marry... the Duke of Peachwood? A man who, since the death of his wife and son, under strange circumstances, had not reappeared in society. He had secluded himself in the countryside and did not interact with anyone. His only obsession, according to London salon gossip, was the peach trees he had in his greenhouse.