'You are a lady of breeding... ...and would make an excellent duchess...' Not the most romantic of proposals, but Marcus Cranford knows it will be accepted - for Lady Rose Trafford desperately needs a convenient husband to protect her and her beloved younger sisters. It also saves the new Duke from the horror of a London season! Rose is courageous, hard-working, often exasperating...but what Marcus doesn't expect is this new spark of lust. And the hope that she's feeling it too...
