Her Marble Duke

Delphine Carrow has one rule: when her sister is in danger, nothing else matters.

So when eighteen-year-old Phoebe vanishes into a storm with a charming fortune hunter, Delphine chases them down the Bath road with her late father's pistol and no plan whatsoever.

She finds the wrong man.

Crispin Brand, the Duke of Marling, has spent twenty-five years perfecting the art of feeling nothing. London calls him the Duke of Marble: cold, immaculate, untouchable. Then a furious, rain-soaked stranger corners him in a dark coaching inn corridor and swears to put a bullet through his throat.

By morning, the cruelest gossips in England have seen the two of them together, and there is only one way to save both their names. A marriage of convenience. Separate rooms. Polite silence. No heirs until they are both ready, and neither of them ever will be.

Neither of them has any idea what they have just agreed to.

Marling Court is a house of locked doors, and Delphine has never met a door she could leave alone. She throws open the curtains. She moves her chair beside his at dinner. She laughs in rooms that have been silent for a generation. And she sees what the Duke of Marble works so hard to hide: a man who wants her, and is terrified that wanting is a kind of madness.

But a jilted earl is circling her sister. A secret behind the east wing doors could undo everything Crispin believes about himself. And a man who has never once lost control is about to learn what it costs to love a woman who will not be protected, who would rather stand beside him than behind him.

Some men are carved from stone. It only takes the right woman to find the crack.

HER MARBLE DUKE is a steamy, open-door Regency romance with sharp banter, a hero who falls first and hardest, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Book 2 in the Scandals of the Season series of standalone romances.