Crash Landing on the Duke

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Sometimes love crashes down on you.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Trajan Aubrey Duke of Weymouth never expected a simple walk along his seacoast estate on a pleasant summer morning to turn into a debacle. But he should have known there would be trouble when beautiful bluestocking Florence Newton fell out of a tree and crash landed atop him. They were suddenly chased and shot at because Florence had been spying on a dangerous and powerful man. What choice did Trajan have but to protect her? This meant giving her a scorching kiss and a fake marriage proposal in effect creating an alibi to make it appear she had been with him and not up a tree spying. There was also the matter of sensitive love letters she had been hired to retrieve from this dangerous man and return to their rightful owner. Had Trajan any sense he would have walked away and refused to help her. But how could he walk away from Florence when she was the woman he loved?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lady Florence Newton knew she had taken on more than she could handle and expected to die until suddenly rescued by Trajan Aubrey Duke of Weymouth the man she had secretly loved since meeting him last year at a summer house party. He was a Silver Duke magnificent and handsome and desired by all women. How could she possibly be special to him? She hadn't mean to fall atop him...if only that tree branch hadn't cracked just as he walked under it. Nor had she expected his scorching kisses or his marriage proposal. Fake proposal of course. And now he was offering his help in completing her impossibly dangerous assignment. Any sane man would have run away and never looked back. But he stood by her protected her and even got shot for her. Was it possible he loved her?</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>The Silver Dukes is a charming Regency historical romance series where you'll find heroes with a dash of silver in their hair and heroines who believe they are spinsters and firmly on the shelf.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tropes you'll love:</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✔️ Bluestocking heroine</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✔️ Protective duke hero</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✔️ Fake engagement / marriage proposal</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✔️ Spy heroine in danger</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✔️ Forced proximity through scandal</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✔️ Hero takes a bullet for heroine</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✔️ Secret long-held love</span></p><p></p>