The Duke of Ravensmere has always found women easy to charm, until the quietest guest at the Duchess of Fairmont’s ball cuts into his smug remarks about the fairer sex.
Amelia Hartwell needs a husband and ought to be pleasant, winning, and careful, yet she spends the evening arguing with the most infuriating man in the room.
Her night turns sharper still when she learns he has taken her carriage home.
He needles her, she unsettles him, and each private encounter grows harder to walk away from.
A lady who must marry and a duke who cannot command her keep circling a desire neither of them meant to want.
