When Miss Harriet Brixton—practical, sharp-tongued, and thoroughly unimpressed by the ton’s golden idols—stumbles through the wrong door at The Rosebury Inn during a rain-soaked journey to Bath, she finds herself not in her own modest chamber but in the lavishly appointed rooms of Tristan Beaumont, the Duke of Ashvale. Witnessed by a clutch of fashionable ladies who have followed the noise, the compromising tableau requires one swift solution: marriage before dawn.
Harriet is furious. Tristan is incredulous. Society is delighted. Neither has the slightest intention of making the arrangement a true marriage—but the closer they are forced to live, the harder it becomes to maintain the elegant fiction that they despise one another. What begins as a cold treaty between enemies slowly and inexorably becomes something neither of them planned: a love that neither title nor pride nor past heartbreak can hold at bay.
A witty, smouldering forced marriage romance about two people who are absolutely certain they are wrong for each other—and who are, devastatingly, wrong about that.
💋 Heat Level: Sensual / Open Door — slow burn with a very satisfying fire
📖 Tropes: Forced Marriage · Bedroom Mix-Up · Enemies to Lovers · Marriage of Convenience · Class Disparity · Fake Indifference · Witty Banter · Grumpy/Sunshine
