An Heiress for the Wicked Duke

London has a price for everything. Vivian Hartwell intends to set her own.

An American railroad heiress with a photographer’s eye and no talent for obedience, Vivian knows what her mother expects: a magnificent marriage and impeccable manners. Vivian wants something more useful—her own money, her own work, and a husband who understands that a wedding ring is not a deed of ownership.

Alistair Rowan, Duke of Ravenswick, needs a fortune. His estate is crumbling, his reputation is ruined, and polite society has spent seven years enjoying his disgrace. Marriage to Vivian offers a practical solution. Her terms are unconventional. Her honesty is irresistible.

Neither expects their carefully negotiated arrangement to become quite so intimate.

Behind closed doors, Alistair makes Vivian feel desired, understood, and entirely herself. But as society begins opening its doors to him again, she discovers how easily a woman’s voice can disappear beneath a duchess’s title.

Vivian will not become another beautiful possession in Ravenswick’s collection.

And to keep the woman he married, the wicked duke may have to surrender the very acceptance he thought he wanted.

A passionate standalone Victorian romance featuring a marriage of convenience, an independent American heroine, a scandal-shadowed duke, explicit consensual intimacy, and a hard-earned happily-ever-after.

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E-bog: 12. oktober 2026