A Duke Worth Healing

“Some wounds are visible. The ones she reached were not.”

The Duke of Thornwood was once the handsomest man in three counties. Now Rowan Vale hides in a shuttered manor with the curtains drawn and the mirrors removed, his face scarred, his leg shattered, his heart locked behind walls no one has breached in eight long months. He has decided, with grim finality, that the man he used to be died on a foreign battlefield, and the monster who came home in his place deserves nothing but solitude.

Then she walks into his study and refuses to look away.

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