“He swore never to love again, until his governess became the one temptation he could not resist.”
Miss Eliza Harrow arrives at Northmere Hall determined to do one thing well, care for the lonely young brother of the Duke of Northmere. After years spent as a governess, she knows how to keep her head down, behave with perfect propriety, and never forget her place.
What she does not expect is Alistair Ravenshaw.
Cold, distant, and feared throughout Society, the Duke has lived for years behind walls of grief and iron control, devoting himself to duty and refusing every temptation that might threaten his carefully ordered life. Yet from the moment Eliza steps into his house, her warmth, defiance, and luminous beauty begin to unravel the restraint he has spent years perfecting.
Eliza knows a governess has no place longing for a duke.
But as stolen moments give way to dangerous intimacy, Alistair is forced to confront the very thing he fears most, loving someone enough to lose her.
And if he cannot break free from the shadows of his past, he may destroy the only woman capable of bringing him back to life.
