The Duke and the Dowager
Iona McDuff
Independent, intelligent, and quietly formidable, she has no intention of surrendering her hard-won freedom again — least of all to gossip, obligation, or another man’s expectations.
So when she travels south to attend the duke’s lavish summer fête, she expects little more than polite amusement. What she does not expect is the growing, maddening pull between herself and the Duke of Broughtonshire — a reserved, honour-bound widower whose self-control masks a depth of feeling as fierce as her own.
Nor does she anticipate the attentions of a much younger viscount, whose reckless pursuit ignites rumours that follow Edith all the way back to her Scottish estate, threatening her reputation and forcing her to confront truths she would rather leave buried.
As scandal spreads, loyalties fracture, and a duel at dawn looms, Edith must decide whether protecting her independence is worth losing the one man who truly sees her — and whether love, once denied, can still be claimed without surrendering herself.
Set between a glittering English estate and the wild beauty of Scotland, The Duke and the Dowager is a sweeping Regency romance filled with sharp wit, tangled families, dangerous desire, and a heroine who refuses to be diminished by age, expectation - or the control of any man.
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