The problem is, Society has dubbed him "The Dastardly Duke." Rumors are rife that he murdered his mad wife so his choices for a suitable bride are limited. Dominic Winters, the widowed Duke of Dartmoor, needs a wife-someone who will provide him with an heir and help him to manage his spitfire adolescent daughter. As long as she can avoid her high-handed aunt's schemes to marry her off.
Who knows, perhaps she can court the interest of a wealthy patron for her school. When Artemis is unexpectedly called upon by a dear friend, a fellow Byronic Book Club member, to navigate her first London Season, she comes at once. "For you, my beautiful Artemis, I'd stay up all night." Artemis Jones-"respectable" finishing-school teacher by day and Gothic romance writer by night-has never lost sight of her real dream: to open her own academic ladies' college. If you're not too tired." Lust flashed in his gaze and then he caught her face between his hands and kissed her.
"I can think of the perfect way to keep you occupied and your mind diverted," she murmured.
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