“I will stand in front of you — not because you are beneath me, but because when the blow comes, I need to be the one it strikes first.”
Alaric Belgrave, Duke of Blackmoor, fights in underground rings, hunts with deadly precision, and rules London’s aristocracy through silence and fear. They call him the Ferocious Duke — though never to his face. Women are drawn to the danger he carries. Men step aside when he enters a room. No one has ever stood their ground in front of him and lived to tell about it without trembling.
Isobel Hartwell cooks in the shadows of London’s East End, turning her dead mother’s recipes into something that feels like warmth, like memory, like home. She dreams of becoming the first woman chef this country will ever remember. But the world does not remember women like her. It expects them to be quiet, to be modest, and to follow instructions. Isobel has never been good at following instructions.
When the Duke tastes a dish at a banquet that awakens something he buried long ago — longing, memory, desire — he tracks the true cook to a backstreet tavern. She is not the celebrated man who claimed the credit. She is a woman with flour on her hands and fire in her spine. He offers her a bargain: one year in his service for a position at London’s finest restaurant.
She faces an impossible choice: enter the lion’s den for one year, or abandon the dream she has chased her entire life.
In Victorian London, where Dukes do not kneel and women do not rise — some bargains come with teeth…
If you love brooding Dukes with dangerous pasts, fierce heroines who refuse to be tamed, and slow-burn romance that builds until it ignites — then The Ferocious Duke is the novel for you.
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