The Duke's Disaster

<p>Noah Winters Duke of Anselm exercises the pragmatism for which he's infamous when his preferred choice of bride cries off and her companion Lady Thea Collins becomes his next choice for his duchess. Lady Thea is mature sensible and even rather attractive-what could possibly go wrong?</p><p><br></p><p>As a woman fallen on hard times Thea doesn't expect tender sentiments from His Grace but she does wish Noah had courted her trust lest her past turn their hastily arranged marriage into a life of shared regrets. Is His Grace courting a convenient wife or a ducal disaster?</p>