The Enemy Duke and the Widow Duchess

Lavinia Devereux never wanted a duchess's life, and her husband's death on their wedding night seemed to release her from the future she feared.

That fragile independence falters when his son, Roderick Vale, arrives at Briarwood Hall, armed with his mother's journal and a claim that her marriage was never legal.

Knowing nothing of the father whose title and inheritance are now his, Roderick comes to seize his birthright and instead finds a beautiful widow treated as duchess in the home he means to reclaim.

Forced proximity turns every clash between them into something harder to separate from attraction, while class differences and another suitor's offer of security leave Lavinia's place at Briarwood increasingly uncertain.

Drawn to the woman he set out to oppose, Roderick must weigh the inheritance he has come to claim against feelings that could cost him everything.