Lady Helena Ashworth has one week to save her family. With her brother on the brink of debtor’s prison and a ruthless creditor threatening violence, Helena will do anything to secure five thousand pounds—even agree to a marriage that is no true marriage at all. Adrian Blackwood, the dark and devastating Duke of Vallencourt, has his own conditions. To claim his inheritance, he needs a wife before his thirty-fifth birthday—and not just any wife. He wants a woman willing to sign away her freedom… and surrender her body to his every command. The contract is scandalous. The pleasures forbidden. Yet Helena cannot resist the Duke’s sinful proposition. For three weeks, she will belong to him—his to train, his to discipline, his to ruin completely—all in exchange for her family’s salvation. But as Adrian draws her deeper into his world of decadent desire, Helena begins to crave not just his touch, but his heart. And when an invitation arrives to **Lord Ravenhurst’s infamous masquerade—a den of masked seduction and whispered sins—**Helena must decide: Will she risk everything to explore the wicked temptations of London’s most notorious lovers… or claim the Duke as the only man who can satisfy her body and soul? A wickedly decadent Victorian erotic romance for fans of forced proximity, marriage-of-convenience heat, and commanding heroes who demand everything. Perfect for readers who crave the scandal of Sylvia Day, the sensual tension of Lisa Kleypas, and the raw intensity of Sierra Simone.
