How to Compromise a Duke

Shell turn a scandal into a happily ever after whether anyone approves or not.

Lady Adeline Linton had weathered one family scandal—she refused to crumble beneath another. When Londons most rakish young duke boasted of compromising her virtue in Whites betting book, she shocked the ton by refusing to deny it. At eight-and-twenty, with her sisters elopement still haunting the family name, Adeline saw opportunity where others saw ruin. If the foolish boy wanted to drag her reputation through the mud for sport, shed drag him to the altar in return. Let him choke on his lies while she finally claimed the family she desperately craved. Even when the formidable Duke of Ravenshollow arrived at her door—sent by the League of Dukes to make her see reason—she held her ground. The icy duke could intimidate all of London, but not a woman with nothing left to lose... except perhaps her heart.

Henry Everstone, Duke of Ravenshollow, had buried one wife; he had no intention of taking another. Until Adeline Linton dared to look him in the eye and suggest he marry her himself if he wanted the rumors retracted. The audacious chit should have cowered before him like everyone else in the ton. Instead, shed laid her desperate truth bare with a dignity that haunted him long after hed left her drawing room. Henry had spent three years perfecting his reputation as Londons most insufferable recluse, yet this spirited woman saw straight through his cold facade to something hed thought long dead. When he offered for her—purely for an heir, nothing more—he expected a grateful, compliant bride. What he got was a woman whose passionate nature and stubborn principles threatened to thaw the ice around his heart, one scorching night at a time. Now he must choose: protect the walls hes built, or risk everything for a woman who was never meant to be more than a convenience.

Enemies to lovers
Marriage of convenience
Scandal/Ruined Reputation
Baby/Heir Plot
Duke hero