Historical Romance

The Duke’s Only Desire

Name: The Duke’s Only Desire
Rating: 4.50 (266 reviews)
Author: Anna Harrington

Anna Harrington

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A simple twist of fate brings a second chance at love.

HIS ONLY DESIRE
Lady Sophie Winter and Shay Douglass fell in love the moment they met. But she had been contracted for marriage to his older brother John, and, as a second son, Shay had been destined for a soldier’s life. Their love could never be…until a tragic fire changed everything. Cursed by the events of that night and accusations he murdered his own brother to claim the dukedom—and his brother’s fiancée—for himself, Shay retreated to his isolated estate a scarred and broken man, determined to live out the rest of his days in self-exile and never see Sophie again.

IS THE WOMAN HE CAN NEVER HAVE
Yet fate has other plans. Ten years later, on the night that Sophie plans to announce her engagement, Shay returns to enforce the old marriage contract that weds her to the Duke of Malvern…to him. Forced unwillingly into a marriage to the man who irreparably shattered her heart, Sophie must find a way to finally exorcise the ghosts of their pasts and heal the scars that still torture both of them, or forever end all hope for love.

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The Dukes of Darkness

Book 1 – The Duke and the Darkness
Book 2 – The Duke of Deceit
Book 3 – The Duke’s Only Desire
Book 4 – The Devil’s Own Duke

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