Lady Aurelia Knowles was meant to become a marchioness, until her betrothed abandoned her at the altar and fled London with another woman—the fiancée of Evander Battle, Duke of Sandacre.
Evander has spent his life cold and controlled, but his bride's elopement with his younger brother leaves him furious and the scandal impossible to contain.
Unable to watch Aurelia bear the humiliation alone, he offers her his name in a marriage of convenience intended only to salvage both their reputations.
Nothing more was ever supposed to follow.
Yet the longer his new wife remains at his side, the less command Evander has over himself, and every soft smile makes him forget that Aurelia was never meant to belong to him.
