The Duke's Bartered Mistress

Lady Georgia Stoughton needs to save her family from ruin, but the reclusive lord holding her father's debt won't take her money. When she offers herself instead, Lord Edymion Hayle — a scarred recluse rumored around Society to be cursed — calls her bluff and signs the contract: she belongs to him until the last hour of December. Edymion wants only seclusion and revenge on the man who scarred him and cost him his place in Society, and Georgia's father is his way to it — but as the winter wears on in his isolated house, the transactional arrangement turns into something neither of them bargained for. Book two of the Surprise! Dukes series, a Regency-set historical romantic comedy with meddling servants, a stubborn cat, and more gardening than expected in December.