HE WAS A LORD SHE WOULD HATE TO LOVE… There seemed no reason why Lady Juliet Manchester should not be wed. She was beautiful, well born, witty, charming, intelligent. But this Juliet allowed no man to play Romeo to her. For her own secret reasons, she vowed that no man would ever have her as a woman or as a wife. The Duke of Severn was a gentleman who had never known denial or defeat. His slightest wishes were others’ commands, and society’s most ravishing belles were his for the asking. It was unthinkable that Juliet could long resist his advances or refuse his proposal. But when this iron-willed lord attempted to storm the defenses of this unyielding lady, the unthinkable happens—first to him…and then to her… WINNER OF THE WALDEN BOOKS BESTSELLING SHORT HISTORICAL NOVEL