Not the Duke's Darling

Freya de Moray is many things: a member of the secret order of Wise Women, the daughter of disgraced nobility, and a chaperone living under an assumed name. What she is not is forgiving. So when the Duke of Harlowe, the man who destroyed her brother and led to the downfall of her family, appears at the country house party she's attending, she does what any Wise Woman would do: she starts planning her revenge.

Christopher Renshaw, the Duke of Harlowe, is being blackmailed. Intent on keeping his secrets safe, he agrees to attend a house party where he will put an end to this coercion once and for all. Until he recognizes Freya, masquerading among the party revelers, and realizes his troubles have just begun. Freya knows all about his sins -- sins he'd much rather forget. But she's also fiery, bold, and sensuous -- a temptation he can't resist. When it becomes clear Freya is in grave dange

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Dukes

More by Elizabeth Hoyt

• To Beguile A Beast (2009)
• Duke of Sin (2016)
• Dearest Rogue (2015)
• When a Rogue Meets His Match (2020)
• Notorious Pleasures (2011)
• To Taste Temptation (2008)
• → Elizabeth Hoyt books in order (full reading guide)

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