Duke of Dalliance

Marry a quiet one, and you won't need a mistress…

Arlington Fox, the Duke of Dallimain, had a decade-long reputation for stealing other men's mistresses. The ton called him the Duke of Dalliance. He wasn't especially proud of the label, and if the real truth were told, he'd only stolen one mistress who just happened to belong to his father. She also happened to be his governess. Rumor traveled fast, and his misdemeanor had turned into a full-blown legend by the time he was twenty. Nine years later, his reputation is being put to good use, helping a wallflower teach a much-deserved lesson to a breed of catty women born into meanness.

Miss Penelope Pepperidge, a wallflower with a tarnished pedigree, was born the love child between the Duke of Mooreland and an unknown woman. But that didn't keep the mean girls at bay. Every walk of life has them, but not all will find themselves in the eye of a Karma hurricane or face to face with a swoony duke on the side of justice. Penelope supposed justice was a matter of perception.

A warning to the wise: There is a limit to what a wallflower will tolerate.