RomanceCraft

To save her family from ruin, Miss Cordelia Lark accepts a proposal from London’s most enigmatic duke. The arrangement is simple: she provides a respectable front and an heir, and he provides the fortune that will secure her sisters’ futures. In return, she must navigate the glittering, cutthroat world of the ton, where one misstep could destroy them both. But the Duke of Ashvale is a man shrouded in secrets. Cold and forbidding by day, he shows Cordelia a startling, passionate tenderness by night. As she uncovers fragments of a past he fiercely guards, she realizes her husband is living a lie—and the dangerous truth could unravel the very foundation of their marriage. Now, caught between the facade they must maintain and the undeniable desire that burns between them, Cordelia faces an impossible choice. Will revealing her own hidden heart, and demanding his in return, lead to a love that defies all odds, or will it shatter the convenient life they’ve built into irreparable pieces?