Regency romance reader: Arabella

Regency romance reader, soft, graceful, and refined

Prompt: A soft, elegant female voice for Regency and historical romance. Her refined mid-register is graceful and warm, honoring wit and restraint, blooming at the stolen moment. There's a fan-and-ballroom charm in her tone. The sound of a narrator who lets a single ungloved touch carry the weight of a whole courtship.

Script: A lady, her mother had always said, revealed nothing. And so Eliza revealed nothing, even as the duke crossed the ballroom toward her. Even as every eye in the room turned. Even as her own treacherous heart forgot entirely how it was meant to behave. She raised her chin and waited.