The Disguised Duke

“She locked me in a stranger’s room and asked whether we should discuss the burglary before or after she screamed. Within the week, I had made her my duchess.”

She can spot a lie across a crowded taproom. Lydia Sutton has poured ale at the Rose and Crown for six years, and in all that time she has waited for one man to walk through the door: Crowley, who ruined her father for asking the wrong questions.

He came to the inn determined not to be noticed. Julian, Duke of Wexford, is hunting the same man under a borrowed name, and the last thing he expects is to be caught by a barmaid with a key in her hand and a grudge older than his disguise.

When Crowley’s men come for her young brother in the dark, one bad week turns two strangers into husband and wife. Lydia trades her apron for silk and a house full of servants waiting for her to stumble, while every ledger she opens leads deeper into the Wexford family’s own secrets.

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