The Duke's Lady
(2024)(The second book in the Lady's Marquess Companion Stories series)
A novel by C K Mackenzie
One Scandal + One Scandal = Love?
Lady Tish Carhart wanted nothing more than marriage. Not because she longed for a family, but because she longed to be free of her mother’s constant complaining. If Tish had to hear about her brother’s elopement or her sister’s marriage to a lowly viscount one more time, they might never find her mother’s body. But between Patrice’s dissatisfaction and the scandal her father left with his rather dramatic death, finding a husband isn’t as easy as it looks.
He weathered his own scandal; he didn’t need another.
Vincent Birtwistle, the Duke of Hawtrey, needed a rich wife, and fast. House falling apart around him, creditors knocking on his door, debtors’ prison looming in the not-so-distant future? It all might be manageable if it weren’t for the fact that most people believed he murdered his father—not that the old man didn’t deserve it. With scandal nipping at his heels and his staff threatening a revolt, Hawks doesn’t need a wife with scandal of her own.
But Tish Carhart made a compelling argument.
She held a substantial dowry, a willingness to work at restoring his estate, and a mind that attracted him as surely as her beauty. Falling in love with her was easy. But scandal was never far away.
Will this newest one tear them apart? Or bring them closer together?
Genre: Historical Romance
Lady Tish Carhart wanted nothing more than marriage. Not because she longed for a family, but because she longed to be free of her mother’s constant complaining. If Tish had to hear about her brother’s elopement or her sister’s marriage to a lowly viscount one more time, they might never find her mother’s body. But between Patrice’s dissatisfaction and the scandal her father left with his rather dramatic death, finding a husband isn’t as easy as it looks.
He weathered his own scandal; he didn’t need another.
Vincent Birtwistle, the Duke of Hawtrey, needed a rich wife, and fast. House falling apart around him, creditors knocking on his door, debtors’ prison looming in the not-so-distant future? It all might be manageable if it weren’t for the fact that most people believed he murdered his father—not that the old man didn’t deserve it. With scandal nipping at his heels and his staff threatening a revolt, Hawks doesn’t need a wife with scandal of her own.
But Tish Carhart made a compelling argument.
She held a substantial dowry, a willingness to work at restoring his estate, and a mind that attracted him as surely as her beauty. Falling in love with her was easy. But scandal was never far away.
Will this newest one tear them apart? Or bring them closer together?
Genre: Historical Romance
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