She arrived in Edinburgh determined to despise him.
Arabella Chester — half Scottish, half English, raised on a crumbling border estate by a father drowning in secrets — has been brought to the Duke of Edinburgh’s door as a pawn in a game she does not yet understand. The Duke is cold, commanding, and betrothed to another woman. The first thing Arabella witnesses is him dismissing a crying servant without a flicker of compassion.
She is wrong about everything.
Alexander Mackenzie hides his kindness behind walls built from duty and discipline. He has spent six years governing Edinburgh alone, carrying a legacy too heavy for one man, and burying every human impulse beneath the reputation they call the Beast of Edinburgh.
Then Arabella Chester walks into his house with her mother’s eyes and her grandfather’s stubbornness, and the walls begin to crack.
But she is promised to another man. He is engaged to another woman. Her father owes his family a debt that could destroy them both. And the man who arranged her marriage will stop at nothing to see it through.
In Victorian Britain, where loyalty is blood-deep and love is the most dangerous currency of all, two people must choose: duty or desire. Family or freedom. The life that was arranged for them — or the one they are brave enough to build.
If you like powerful Dukes who refuse to play by the rules — and fall for women who refuse to abandon their dreams — then Duke’s Forbidden Passion is the novel for you.
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