The Reclusive Duke's Found Family

Lady Adelaide Talbot has never learned to be quiet for society’s comfort.

Notorious for her outspoken support of women’s rights, she would rather challenge convention than secure a match –until her ailing father arranges her marriage to a reclusive duke.

Her new husband offers her freedom, with one unwavering condition: no children, and no expectation of love.

Yet Adelaide has never accepted the limits others set for her…

Eric Sullyard, Duke of Wolverton, has spent five years hiding from the world.

Since the night his sister died, guilt has been his only companion.

Then Adelaide fills his silent halls with a warmth he believed had vanished forever, and Eric finds himself captivated by the very qualities society condemns in his wife…

Slowly, Adelaide and Eric begin breaking the very rule their marriage was built on.

Then a staged accident puts Adelaide’s life at risk, and old whispers about the night his sister died return, carrying a truth Eric never imagined.

When it finally surfaces, will it break Eric completely, or give him the family he stopped believing he deserved?