The Duke’s Temptress Ward: a Steamy First Time Romance Short Story in Regency-era England Historical

A forbidden glance in the drawing room ignites a fire neither guardian nor ward can extinguish.Orphaned at twenty, Lady Serena Castair arrives at Millford Castle under the iron protection of Tristan Millford, the thirty-five-year-old Duke who once swore off love after burying his wife. Duty demands he launch her into a glittering London Season and secure her a respectable husband—yet every low-cut gown she wears for dinner, every heated stare across the library, chips away at his restraint. Serena dreamed of one man only: the silver-streaked, battle-hardened duke whose skilled touch promises to ruin her for anyone else.When Tristan discovers his ward pleasuring herself to fantasies of his tongue between her thighs, honor shatters. One searing night transforms guardian into lover, ward into willing captive. In this scorching Regency debut, innocence surrenders to experience, and a duke’s forbidden ward becomes the woman who brings him to his knees.