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The Fireside Dukes

3 Novels + 3 Audiobooks

Adrian's Fireside
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  • Three full-length novels — 626 pages in all
  • The complete audiobooks — 21.1 hours, told in the same voice you know from the channel
  • The stories too big for one evening — each about five times as long as an episode
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Cover of The Duke's Only Lie by Adrian Hartwell
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Three dukes. Three children. Three homes made whole.

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A rain-grey Derbyshire valley with a great stone house on the far hill, warm light in its windows

It begins with an empty plate

England, 1816 — the year the summer never came. Rain on the moors since the first of May, and bread dearer every week. In the cold kitchens of a great Derbyshire house, a young widow, Mrs. Marlow, works her pastry late into the night and quietly gives her own supper to a maid with a toothache.

Then her six-year-old son slips upstairs in the middle of the duke’s grand dinner and politely asks whether he might have the potatoes left on His Grace’s plate.

The duke gives them to him. And when the boy’s mother comes to fetch him, she finds herself looking at a dead man — the husband she was told fell in Spain seven years ago. He was told she was buried.

One empty plate. One lie, told to two people, a long time ago.
And a little boy who is about to change everything.

That is the first of three novels about three dukes who were boys together at Harrow and have grown into men who keep the world at arm’s length — and three children who walk straight past the arm. A little boy who asks for leftovers. A girl in a borrowed coat who begs a stranger, “Tell him I’m your daughter.” A six-year-old who has not spoken a word in two years, and the one woman in Bath who will dance with her.

A country-house kitchen hearth at night: copper pans, bread on an oak table, a plate of potatoes, and a pair of boots drying by the fire

Three dukes. Three children. Three homes made whole.

Book one

A Place at the Duke’s Table

1816

In the cold, hungry summer of 1816, a young widow works as pastry cook in a great Derbyshire house, and her six-year-old son asks the new duke for his potatoes. The duke is the husband she was told died at Talavera. The boy is his son. And the marriage someone worked very hard to erase may be the only true thing left in the house.

210 pages · 7.1 hours of audio
Book two

The Duke’s Only Lie

1817

Henry Allard, Duke of Wexcombe, has never told a lie. Then, in a crowded market on the Great North Road, a little girl in a stable boy’s coat grips his sleeve and whispers, “Tell him I’m your daughter.” He does. By the end of the week all London knows it, and by the end of the Season it may cost him everything — unless the girl’s aunt will help him make the lie come true.

210 pages · 7 hours of audio
Book three

A Dance for the Duke’s Daughter

1818

At the Twelfth Night ball in Bath, no one will dance with the Duke of Ellesford’s silent daughter, so Abigail Rowe, a sea captain’s orphan with nothing but a small pension, crosses the ballroom and takes her hand. The duke watched from the gallery and did not come down. Now Abigail is teaching his daughter the hand-talk of her father’s ship on a wild Somerset shore, and the duke must decide whether he will finally come in.

206 pages · 7 hours of audio
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What I promise you, in all three books

1

The romance is clean. Always.

All the longing — the held look, the hand that almost touches, the dance put off for a hundred pages — and nothing explicit, ever. Every page could be read aloud by the fire, with anyone in the room.

2

No cheating. No love triangles. No manufactured jealousy.

The hero never wavers, and the heroine never doubts him for three hundred pages. The obstacles are hunger, debt, the law, the weather, society — and lies told by other people.

3

Every book is complete.

Each novel has a real ending and an epilogue. No cliffhangers, no “to be continued.” You can read just one and feel whole.

4

A child at the heart of every story — and every child ends safe.

These children are funny, stubborn and brave, and some of them begin their stories hungry, lonely or running. Not one of them is harmed on the page, and every one of them ends the book loved and home. That is a promise too.

5

All three are finished, today.

No waiting a year for the next book. The whole series is written, edited and narrated — and in your hands the moment you buy.

Read them, or listen to them — everything is included

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626 pages · 21.1 hours of audio
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The Duke’s Only Lie — novel$12
A Dance for the Duke’s Daughter — novel$12
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  • All three novels, complete and unabridged — 626 pages
  • All three audiobooks — 21.1 hours, read in the same voice that tells the stories on the channel
  • EPUB, PDF, Kindle-ready and MP3 files — one download, every format
  • Read on Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Android, Kobo or your computer — and listen anywhere your phone goes
  • DRM-free. The files are yours to keep, on every device you own
  • Instant delivery — nothing to post, nothing to wait for, no account to create
  • Free updates for life — if I ever revise these books, your download updates too

Never read an ebook before? A one-page guide comes with it. It takes about a minute.

A deep armchair by a glowing fireplace at night, with a cup of tea, a phone with earbuds and an e-reader on the side table
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Your trust matters more to me than nineteen dollars.

About Adrian Hartwell

Adrian Hartwell is the pen name behind Adrian’s Fireside Stories, the channel where listeners come at the end of the day for a Regency love story, told slowly and kindly, by the fire.

These three novels were written for those listeners, to one standard: a story you could read aloud to anyone in the house, with children in it you will not forget, and an ending that lets you sleep.

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Questions, answered plainly

Is this the same as the stories on the channel?

No. Not a word of these novels has been on the channel. Same voice, same warmth, same clean romance — but each book is about five times as long as an episode, with room for the whole story.

Is it really clean?

Yes. Longing and kisses on the page, nothing explicit, no bedroom scenes. When a door closes, it stays closed. Safe to read anywhere, and to recommend to anyone.

There are children in the stories. Are they safe?

Yes. Some of them begin their stories in trouble — that is part of why the stories matter — but no child is ever harmed on the page, and every one of them ends the book safe, loved and home.

Is there an audiobook?

Yes. All three novels, unabridged — 21.1 hours of audio, read in the same voice you hear on the channel. They come with the Complete Edition at no extra cost.

How do I listen to the audiobooks?

They’re MP3 files. They play on any phone, tablet or computer, in the app you already use for music or podcasts. The short guide in your download shows you how.

Do I have to read them in order?

No. Each book is complete, with its own ending. The three dukes are old friends, so you’ll meet them in each other’s stories — but you can begin anywhere.

Why isn’t this on Amazon?

Because I would rather hand it to you myself than through a marketplace. It’s here, and only here.

I’ve never bought an ebook before. Is it hard?

Not at all. You’ll get one email with your files and a one-page guide, and you can be reading in a couple of minutes. Your receipt lets you download everything again, any time.

Will it work on my Kindle?

Yes. A Kindle-ready file is included, with simple steps for sending it to your Kindle.

Can I support the channel without buying the books?

Of course. The stories on the channel stay free, always — listening there is support enough. The books are simply the longer version, for those who want it.

What’s your refund policy?

Thirty days, no questions asked. Just reply to your receipt email — and you keep the files.

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The books are finished. The fire is lit.

A duke who counts the silver so he need not look at faces. A girl who lies to stay safe. A child who has not said a word in two years.

626 pages and 21.1 hours of story, written for the people who listen. You can start tonight — reading, or listening.

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