The Hunted Duke's Convenient Bride

Helena Whitmore has kept her mother and sister afloat for three years, but her father's death leaves the vicar's living to another man and the house that was never truly theirs due to be emptied by month's end.

Edmund Ridley, Duke of Westmere, offers a practical marriage: his name and protection for her family if she becomes his wife by the date fixed in his late father's will.

She accepts the bargain because no other door remains, and he tells her only about the clause and the deadline.

He does not tell her that the cousin waiting to inherit has already stopped waiting and wants him dead.

An arrangement meant to stay nothing more begins to change when the guarded duke plants a garden beneath her ailing mother's window and finds himself lying awake to protect Helena, even as that cousin draws close enough to threaten them both.