The Relentless Duke

“She never agreed to be his. He never intended to let her be anyone else’s.”

Lucy Fairbourne came to London with one modest ambition: to remain unnoticed. After a charming, calculating gentleman made her the subject of a whispered joke, she has learned that attention is a currency she cannot afford, and she has folded herself small enough to escape it. Quiet, clever, and quietly proud, Lucy expects nothing from the powerful men who fill the ballrooms, least of all kindness.

Godfrey Sotherton, the Duke of Wycliffe, is called the coldest man in London, and he has never troubled to correct the impression. Burdened with a title he did not want and a reputation he did nothing to soften, he watches society with weary contempt and notices far more than he ever lets on. When he finds Lucy hiding from the same ball he is hiding from, he sees at once what the ton has missed. And when a scheming rival springs a trap designed to ruin her, arranging witnesses at a darkened door, Godfrey does the one thing no one expects. He announces, before the whispers can even form, that she is to be the Duchess of Wycliffe.

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