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The story opens with vivid street atmosphere and Tommy’s lingering memories, then shifts to anticipation inside a cramped “best room,” where power, desire, and intimacy quickly take over. The narrative also frames the characters through past trauma and explicit sexual content, treating intimacy as both vulnerability and agency.","Table of Contents  \nA NineStar Press Publication  \nTo Defend a Damaged Duke  \nPrologue  \nChapter One  \nChapter Two  \nChapter Three  \nChapter Four  \nChapter Five  \nChapter Six  \nChapter Seven  \nChapter Eight  \nChapter Nine  \nChapter Ten  \nChapter Eleven  \nChapter Twelve  \nChapter Thirteen  \nChapter Fourteen  \nChapter Fifteen  \nChapter Sixteen  \nChapter Seventeen  \nChapter Eighteen  \nChapter Nineteen  \nChapter Twenty  \nChapter Twenty-One  \nChapter Twenty-Two  \nChapter Twenty-Three  \nChapter Twenty-Four  \nChapter Twenty-Five  \nChapter Twenty-Six  \nChapter Twenty-Seven  \nChapter Twenty-Eight  \nEpilogue  \nAcknowledgements  \nAbout the Author  \nComing Soon from Fearne Hill  \nConnect with NineStar Press  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nA NineStar Press Publication  \n[www.ninestarpress.com](www.ninestarpress.com)  \nTo Defend a Damaged Duke  \nISBN: 978-1-64890-877-4  \n© 2025 Fearne Hill  \nCover Art © 2025 Melody Pond  \nEdited by Elizabetta McKay  \nPublished in June 2025 by NineStar Press, New Mexico, USA.  \nThis is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author ’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form, whether by printing, photocopying, scanning or otherwise without the written permission of the publisher. To request permission and all other inquiries, contact NineStar Press [at ](at Contact@ninestarpress.com)[Contact@ninestarpress.com](at Contact@ninestarpress.com).  \nAlso available in Print, ISBN: 978-1-64890-878-1  \nCONTENT WARNING:  \nThis book contains sexually explicit content, which may only be suitable for mature readers.  \nDiscussion of past trauma (recounted) .  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTo Defend a Damaged Duke Regency Rossingley, Book Two  \nFearne Hill  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPrologue  \nLondon, 1813  \nAT THE BACK of the fruit and veg market in Convent Garden, a showman scraped a living. Every Tuesday and Friday, for more years than Tommy Squire had been alive. Same patch, same old rickety stall, same old rickety routine. Same anticlimactic finale. Declaring himself the world’s greatest magician, he’d hold aloft a playing card, purse his wrinkled, whiskery lips, and pretend to blow the spots off it. Tommy had watched him fumble the cards up his sleeve hundreds of times; seen him drop them on occasion too. And yet, on his mother ’s grave, even as he wriggled a grubby knave down from his elbow to his wrist, the old sot still swore it was magic.  \nTommy was reminded of that showman whenever the lordling’s black eyes, like two jet pearls, fluttered closed. Usually, the memory came seconds after the lordling’s throat made a helpless little whine, speaking its own language, directly into Tommy heart. It heralded the shortest sliver of time before he spilled into Tommy’s mouth and then pressed his lips against Tommy’s, tasting himself on them. Whispering sweet nonsense.  \nThose were the times Tommy remembered that old showman and his frayed cards, and it was only years later he understood what he meant. The daft sod had spun the story to himself so many times, believing in the magic of it, he ended up fooling himself.  \n*  \n“OUR YOUNG LORDLING’S here, Tommy. Waiting in the best room.”Ma Duggan’s expression soured, matching the sallow hue of her downturned sneer.“Taken off upstairs already to get hisself ready. He’s asked for you.”  \nFancying himself as a bit of an actor—he had to be in this business if he wanted paying right—Tommy pretended not to notice young Dickie flouncing out of the parlour. Nor Sidney’s jealous sulk. After all, who could blame them? The handsome lordling had caught everyone’s eye.  \n“I’ll be there when I’ve finished me tea. Won’t hurt him to wait a minute or two.”  \nTommy could control his face, keep it blank. 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