The Duchess of Asherwood
The stakes were high, and she was the ravishing pawn in a dangerous charade of love...

"YOU WILL BE MY DUCHESS," DECLARED THE DOUR DUKE OF ASHERWOOD.  "BUT NEVER MY WIFE!"

No one was more stunned by her acceptance of his outrageous proposal than Lenore Lanier herself.  It was an arrangement neither pure nor simple.  She would be accessory to a secret debt of honor, stepmother to his two spirited sons...and the most beautiful butterfly ever to distract London's ton:  a perfect diversion as the duke embarked on his dangerous, clandestine plan.

It was a challenge Lenore couldn't resist.  She would play the game to perfection...and win the heart of the man she had married--the unlikeliest suitor of all!