The Duchess Takes a Lover

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>A duchess with nothing to lose...</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>After a disastrous wedding night followed by eighteen months of isolation at her husband's country estate the Duchess of Southwick has grown tired of being lonely. There's only so many books a person can read and Mara has read most of them twice. So she's made a decision. For the first time since her wedding she's traveling to London for the Season. And while she's there this meek shy mouse of a wallflower who has never met a shade of beige she didn't like will do the unthinkable.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mara Buxton Duchess of Southwick is going to take a lover.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>A duke with everything to gain...</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When Ambrose hears the rumors swirling about his wife his initial reaction is scornful amusement. Mara step out on him? Absurd. While a fiery spark of attraction first drew them together it was extinguished long ago. The Duchess of Southwick for all her beauty is cold as ice and the only thing she has a chance of inviting into her bed is snow. But when Ambrose discovers that she really does intend to have an affair his amusement quickly turns to incredulity and then to jealousy. Mara is </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>his</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> wife dammit.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>If anyone is going to make her burn with passion...it's him.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><u>Ladies of Seduction</u></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 1 - The Duchess Takes a Lover</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 2 - The Lady Courts a Marquess</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 3 - The Countess Kisses a Rogue</span></p>