9th May
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Only when one stares down their pasts can they move forward into new directionsโฆโ
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When Adam Tattinger, sixth Duke of Averly, canโt draw out his engagement any longer, he fights it to the bitter end. He doesnโt want a wife; long ago he lost everything and hid his heart behind thick walls, but damned responsibility kept calling and he had to do right by the title, despite the fact that dark, carnal desires might pull him apart and forever brand him as depraved.
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The Honorable Imogen Mattingly has been promised to Averly since she was a girl. Her father and his had struck a questionable deal for properties and illicit fortunes, but now her freedom is overโthe duke has come to claim her. Beyond everything, she doesnโt want to be a wife, especially to a duke of questionable morals. She has dreams of her own but trying to outrun her own secrets has cast a pall over any other prospects.
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As their nuptial ceremony gets underway, the two are enemies from the start. Since neither of them wants the union, they vow to make each otherโs lives miserable despite forced proximity, yet those plans become more difficult as attraction crackles between them. Though healing hearts and perceptions arenโt as simple as base needs of the body, when one night of understanding puts the couple on new footing, things change, but will the cost prove too high for broken spirits? Only they can decide how their future will look.
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โโฆor else mistrust and grief will destroy from within.
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