The Scandal of Being Seen with a Duke

She has one rule. He is the exception that will not stay quiet. Miss Harriet Lisle has spent nine years obeying a single rule: never be alone in a room with a duke. Her sister's ruin taught her everything she needed to know. Then she finds the Duke of Wainwright bleeding in her aunt's rose garden at midnight — and when the scandal sheets catch her dragging him indoors, the rule breaks in spectacular fashion. Nathaniel has a speech to give, a rival to outmaneuver, and an antique map collection he refuses to be ashamed of. He does not have time for a six-week courtship designed to satisfy the ton. He does it anyway. The terms are strictly business: one fixed end date, a scrupulous chaperone, no feelings. But Harriet's sister has other plans, Nathaniel's rivals have longer memories, and the six weeks refuse to stay fixed. A bright, warm Regency romance of rules broken at exactly the right moment.