Download or read book Claiming the Duchess written by Sherry Thomas and published by Sherry Thomas. This book was released on 2014-04-12 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarissa, the widowed Duchess of Lexington, has two great loves: the reticent and reclusive Mr. James Kingston and her faithful correspondent Miss Julia Kirkland, whom Clarissa has never met. Now both Mr. Kingston and Miss Kirkland are due to arrive at Clarissa’s house—and Clarissa is about to find out that nothing of either is as she has been led to believe… This is a short story of 6,000 words. Tags secret identity romance, nobility, second chance, rich, Victorian romance, Edwardian romance, epistolary romance