To Desire a Duke

She was always invisible to him... Until the moment she became utterly irresistible.Lady Arabella Hartwell has spent years holding her crumbling family together. The dutiful daughter. The sensible sister. The woman no one truly sees. But when a blackmailer's letter threatens to destroy everything her father left behind, Arabella is forced to seek help from the one man powerful enough to save them.The Duke of Ravensmere.Alexander Pembroke is controlled, intelligent, and dangerously difficult to read. Her late brother's closest friend, and the man who has never once looked at her twice. Pressured to marry, he proposes an arrangement both practical and perilous: Arabella will help him navigate London's marriage market and identify the perfect duchess...while he quietly protects her family from ruin.It should have been simple.Instead, every glance lingers too long, every charged silence across his library desk pulls them closer, and every gloved touch on a crowded ballroom floor draws Arabella deeper into the orbit of a man she can never have.Because the longer Alexander spends at her side, the more impossible it becomes to deny the desire simmering beneath his carefully controlled exterior. And the more dangerous their arrangement becomes.She needs his protection. He needs her guidance. Neither of them intended to want each other this badly. But in a world where duty matters more than love and scandal destroys lives, surrendering to temptation could cost them everything.To Desire a Duke is the first book in The Forbidden Lives of the Ton, a steamy Regency romance featuring a deeply restrained duke, a quietly irresistible heroine, a marriage-market bargain, forbidden attraction, slow-burn tension, he-falls-harder yearning, glittering ballrooms, and sizzling on-page chemistry.

Pages: 344, Paperback, Independently published