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Promised to a duke before she was born, Cecilia spent her life sculpted to please a man she was never allowed to know. Her tastes, her body, even her breath belonged to him. Admired as a perfect duchess and pitied as a silent one, she endured a gilded life of obedience, loss, and solitude. When her husband dies on her fortieth birthday, Cecilia is finally free — and utterly lost. Finally she is forced to ask herself who she trully is.