7/4/2023 0 Comments Only a Promise by Mary Balogh![]() After overhearing a conversation between Ralph and his grandmother on the urgency of marriage, Chloe approaches him with the idea that they marry. ![]() ![]() While there, Ralph meets Chloe Muirhead, who has sought sanctuary with his grandmother, her mother’s godmother, after a couple of disastrous seasons have left her practically ineligible in the eyes of the ton. However, his grandfather, a duke, is fading, and his grandmother has summoned Ralph to their country estate to express how imperative it is that he marry. When Ralph Stockwood went to war with his three best friends, he was an idealistic 18-year-old, but watching them all fall in battle and nearly dying himself has left him a shadow of the vibrant, charismatic young man he was. ![]() Fighting Napoleon, Ralph Stockwood suffered devastating loss and now feels dead inside, but as the sole heir to a dukedom, he needs a wife when a family friend suggests they marry, she seems as good a choice as any, since love is off the table. ![]()
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