SHE DANCED ALONE IN THE EMPTY BALLROOM AFTER MIDNIGHT-UNAWARE THE DUKE WAS WATCHING

from the door. He was not a man who acted on feeling; he was a man who thought first, who weighed, and who measured. His father had taught him lines before he died, and his father’s death had taught him again.

He had inherited a title at 19 and learned very fast that a duke who acted on feeling was a duke who was robbed, cheated, or married to the wrong continue reading …