She is determined to shatter the duke’s cool reserve with seductive touches…
Lady Adeline Hays has one night to change her fate. Tomorrow, her engagement to a cruel, despicable earl will be announced. With the help of a trusted friend, she plans to be caught in a compromising situation with a man whose suit her father rejected. But her friend has designs of her own and Adeline ends up in the chamber of the Mad Duke.
Edmond Rochester, the Duke of Wolverton, needs a wife for the sake of his children. What he doesn’t need is the attraction he feels toward the beguiling beauty who traps him into marriage. Marked by the death of his first wife, Edmond is resolved to keep his new duchess at arm’s length. But Adeline, and the passion she inspires, is hard to ignore…
