Her Golden Hair, Cut to Make an Heir

Synopsis

Kallia is twelve, kneeling in the mud of Ruber, when a carriage comes for her. The Marchioness of Bell needs an heir — her own son is coughing blood, and a great family cannot be seen without one. So Kallia's hair is cut, her name is taken, and she is delivered to the estate as Callian Bell, second son, with her mother's safety as the price of the lie. Four years later her brother is well again, the disguise has held, and a young duke who should not care has begun to notice how slender her hands are.