Courting the Duchess

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>He vanished without a word. Only now that he has returned her heart isn't ready to forgive-or forget.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Eight years ago Sterling St. John Duke of Morton vanished mere hours after marrying his innocent young bride. Alaina was left humiliated heartbroken...and untouched. London buzzed with gossip but she endured it all and emerged transformed.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now a sharp-tongued beauty and the fearless founder of a scandalously progressive ladies' reading Society Alaina has no intention of welcoming her wayward husband home. She's determined to show him he's neither needed nor wanted.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But Sterling isn't the same man either. Hardened by years of secrets and haunted by decisions he cannot reveal he knows protecting the wife he never wished to leave means keeping her in the dark.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Yet the fiery woman she's become tries his sanity and ignites his passion; he never expected the woman she became to tempt him past all reason.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It isn't long before both realize that there's still something there that they were meant to be together. But when the truth comes to light will love be enough to bridge the years-and the secrets-that lie between them?</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Note: </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This series is part of Dragonblade's Flame line so this is a scorching-hot read with open-door steam.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><u>Spy Society</u></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 1 - Courting the Duchess</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 2 - Seducing the Spy</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 3 - Marrying the Marquess</span></p>