**Intact Gift Giving Condition book**

Mrs Cora Merrington has always done her duty as a wife and mother. The duke, a mother at a loose end, and a man of nature … but just who is sending seemingly random strangers to the duke? But now her husband is dead, her five children are grown up, their course in life settled, and all her efforts to steer them to suitable marriages have been a waste of time. She lives on the periphery of their lives, no longer very important to anyone, yet duty and convention keep her tied to their side.