Coming April 2026

After suffering a humiliating heartbreak, the Duke of Kenswick swore off love, vowing never again to stray from the safety of the two things he understood best—duty and responsibility. When the start of his youngest sister’s debut Season in London brings him face to face with scandal, a marriage of convenience seems the only logical solution to preserve honor…and protect his carefully guarded heart.

 

Emilia Talbot has spent most of her life trying to be invisible. The daughter of a struggling earl, she has learned that peace is often purchased with silence, and affection rarely comes without a price. She has spent years cultivating a plan to ensure she would neverbe used as a pawn to further another man’s ambitions.

 

But when fate throws her into the arms of the same man—twice—she finds herself not only married to a stranger, but suddenly the Duchess of Kenswick.

 

What was meant to be a sensible arrangement soon becomes anything but. There is nothing quite so inconvenient as realizing that the one person you vowed never to need is the only one that you truly want.

 

But can a love born of obligation ever be freely given?