She’s trying to lose a duke. He’s enjoying every minute of it.

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Charlotte Beaumont has successfully avoided marriage for five seasons, but her luck runs out when her father gives her an ultimatum: pick a husband or he'll pick one for her. Determined to escape a lifetime of being neither respected nor heard, Charlotte launches a campaign of deliberate chaos, hoping to prove herself unfit for holy matrimony.

Simon Hamilton, the Duke of Stanton, has thirty days to settle his late brother’s debts or lose everything. With no assets left to sell, marriage is his only option. When an advantageous match presents itself in the form of a strong-willed heiress, Simon refuses to let the opportunity pass him by.

 

Because her father won’t allow her to reject the duke, Charlotte sets out to get him to reject her, breaking every rule of etiquette she knows. The maddeningly unflappable duke takes it all in stride, and what began as a calculated campaign spirals into an unconventional courtship. The more outrageous her behavior, the more intrigued—and invested—he becomes.

But as playful sabotage gives way to genuine attraction, danger from Simon’s past resurfaces, raising the stakes from social ruin to something far more deadly.