A Midsummer Night’s Duke
When Bitty Langham ran away from home at sixteen with a company of traveling players, plenty of other people predicted a future of disgrace and despair for her, but she never believed in it—until now. Jobless, loveless, she’s en route to a staid future as a teacher in a girls’ school, just the sort of proper existence she’s always dreaded. So when she meets a handsome stranger outside a coaching inn, she can’t resist the temptation to enjoy one last midsummer taste of her old wild and reckless life.
Rex—just Rex, for now—never succumbs to temptation. He plans. He practices. He tries so hard to meet the world’s expectations. But the beautiful, flirtatious, remarkably sweet woman who approaches him at a village festival sparks an attraction impossible to resist. And a long, sultry night together unlocks feelings he’s never allowed himself before.
Impossible to part as strangers in the morning. And yet that’s what they both promised to do… until fate brings them together again in the most unlikely, unlucky of circumstances. Now they will have to see if a midsummer night’s magic can withstand the harsh light of social convention.
