Scarlett Peckham

The Portrait of a Duchess (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The scandalous women of the SOCIETY OF SIRENS are back with an explosive secret...their ranks include a duchess in disguise

Once upon a time she married in secret...

An activist painter of radicals and harlots, Cornelia Ludgate dismisses love and marriage as threats to freedom. But when an inheritance gives her the chance to fund the cause of women's rightson the condition she must wedshe is forced to reveal a secret: she's already married. To a man she hasn't seen for twenty years.

Oh...and her husband is a duke.

A horse breeder with a clandestine taste for revolution, Rafe Goodwood never expected to become a duke. But now that the title is his, he is plotting to shock the ruling class with ambitions of reformand reveal the infamous Cornelia is his duchess. That just presents one problem: he must not fall in love with heragain.

Now they must resist the temptation to rekindle an affair...

Although determined not to sacrifice her principles for passion, Cornelia is still drawn to the man whose very being threatens her independence. Hurt too many times, Rafe can't risk love againespecially with the woman who once shattered his heart. But a conspiracy to upend the inequalities of the aristocracy bring Cornelia and Rafe closer, forcing them to finally decide whatand whothey hold dear.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062935649
• Artikelnr.: 62486439

Autorenporträt

Scarlett Peckham writes steamy historical romances celebrating alpha heroines. Her USA Today bestselling debut novel, The Duke I Tempted, was named a Best Romance Novel of 2018 by BookPage and the Washington Post. Scarlett lives in Los Angeles, where she enjoys trying to think of new ways to say wicked, collecting vintage romance clench covers, and dressing her cat up in bowties.