A Most Inconvenient Duke

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She let a duke believe she was rich. He let the whole world believe he couldn't be touched. Neither of them counted on falling in love.

Arabella Pemberton has one job: keep her family's ruin a secret. For two seasons she has performed wealth she does not have—one heated room, a made-over gown, her mother's pearls quietly sold—all to keep her father out of debtors' prison. So when a scandal on a moonlit balcony forces a bargain with London's most guarded duke, she does what she always does. She lies. She lets him believe the Pembertons are sound.

Julian Blackwood, Duke of Ashworth, has spent eleven years armored against love, ever since he watched it destroy his father. A marriage of convenience is precisely what he needs—a cold, clean arrangement with a woman of fortune, no feeling required. What he doesn't know is that his convenient bride is as ruined as he is cornered, and that his own cousin has forged the very papers that could strip him of everything before Midsummer.

Two people, each hiding a fortune that doesn't exist. Each certain the other holds all the cards. Each falling, against every calculation, for the one person they can least afford to trust.

Then the lie they've both been living detonates in front of all of London—and the only way out is the one thing neither has ever dared: to be seen, entirely, with nothing left to hide.

A Most Inconvenient Duke is a sweeping, slow-burn Regency romance of secrets, second chances, and the terrifying courage it takes to be loved for exactly who you are. Perfect for readers who devoured Bridgerton and the novels of Julia Quinn, Evie Dunmore, and Lisa Kleypas.

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