A reckless kiss. A ruined reputation. A marriage neither of them wanted—but one that might just save them both. At a ball, Tristan Hargrave, the notorious Devil Duke of Ashford, makes a drunken wager: he’ll steal a kiss from the season’s most untouchable debutante. But when that kiss shatters Isla Everly’s reputation, Tristan is forced to offer marriage—or face scandal of his own. For Isla, the goal was simple: marry well and rescue her family from financial ruin. Falling prey to a duke’s careless bet was never part of the plan. Now, trapped in an engagement born of scandal, she finds herself bound to the very man she vowed to despise. But Tristan is not the rake she thought he was. And as Isla begins to glimpse the wounded, honorable man beneath the title, she wonders if her marriage of convenience might offer more than survival—it might offer love. Until a figure from her past returns, carrying a secret that could destroy everything. Will Isla risk her heart—and her secrets—for the man she never meant to love