When Fate's Collide

A sudden summer storm. A ruined reputation. A marriage neither anticipated, yet fated to be.

When a summer downpour traps Lady Imogen Hartley alone with London's most notorious bachelor, there's only one way to salvage her reputation: marriage. By nightfall, she's a duchess. By morning, she's married to a stranger.

Sebastian Montague, Duke of Blackwood, built his rake's reputation as armor-a way to keep the world, and his own heart, at arm's length. He never intended to marry. He certainly never intended to want to.

But Imogen isn't like the women who've come before. Her quiet defiance gets under his skin. Her gaze doesn't waver. And the harder he tries to play the proper, dutiful husband she deserves, the more that careful mask threatens to crack.

Retreated to his estate and trapped by vows neither chose, Imogen and Sebastian are forced into a proximity that strips away every pretense-his practiced indifference, her careful composure-until all that's left is the truth neither can keep denying.

He was supposed to be unattainable. She was supposed to be safe.

Neither of them saw this coming.