The Enigmatic Duke (The Notorious Dukes #2)

"I have seen what our world is built upon. And I have come home to tear it down."

Alexander Harrington vanished into the sea eight years ago — an heir to a dukedom presumed dead, mourned, and quietly written out of his own inheritance. London buried him.

Now he has returned: weathered, scarred, and dangerous in a way the drawing rooms cannot name. They call him the Enigmatic Duke, and they crowd close to him at every ball, desperate to learn where he has been and what he saw. He tells them nothing. He cannot. Because somewhere in those missing years, Alexander learned the secret that holds aristocratic London together — and he carries the evidence that could burn it all down.

Lady Catherine Fairfax has spent her life being told that a woman of her station exists to be decorative and silent. She has never been good at either. Behind her father’s name and her flawless manners, she works in the shadows for a cause that could ruin her — and she is searching for the one thing she has never found among the men of her class: someone who will use his power for good, and not for profit.

When they meet at a ball, her sharp tongue and fierce conviction catch his attention as nothing in London has. What begins as shared opinions about justice becomes a companionship that could ruin them both. But to love her is to endanger her — for the secret Alexander carries is one that powerful men have already killed to protect. And the closer they grow, the clearer it becomes that one of them will have to choose between the person they love — and the justice they cannot abandon.

In a London built on beautiful lies, the most dangerous thing two people can do is hold true to each other — when the truth that binds them could bring the whole of English society crashing down...

If you love brooding Dukes with dangerous pasts, fierce heroines who refuse to be tamed, and slow-burn romance that builds until it ignites — then The Enigmatic Duke is the novel for you.