A Forged Bargain with the Duke

“She was warned about the Duke of Calder. She was warned by the man who forged his signature.”

Theodora Loxton has run her father’s estate since she was nineteen, the rents, the roofs, the debts he prefers not to look at. In return he has spent six years telling the county she is difficult, ungovernable, and a trial to a patient man.

When the Duke of Calder offers to clear the family’s debt entire, her father signs the settlement before she is allowed to read it. What he puts in front of her instead is a private paper in the Duke’s own hand: her letters to be opened and locked away, the household his to appoint, her every movement his to know.

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