After eight years of waiting for her betrothed to finally set a wedding date, Clio Whitmore is done. The wandering Marquess of Granville has left her engaged and forgotten, and now that Clio has inherited a castle of her own, she has the independence to break things off with her dignity intact. There is only one obstacle standing between her and freedom: her fiance's brother.
Rafe Brandon is a champion prizefighter, an unrepentant rake, and absolutely determined that Clio will marry his brother as promised — even if he has to plan the wedding himself. But the more time he spends coaxing his brother's reluctant bride toward the altar, choosing her flowers and lacing her into gowns, the harder it becomes to picture her marrying anyone but him.
The second book in Tessa Dare's Castles Ever After series is a sparkling, tender historical romance about duty, longing, and the terrible timing of falling for the one person you can never have. It pairs a jilted heroine reclaiming her life with a gruff, golden-hearted fighter for a slow burn neither of them planned.