luizadevereaux
Lady Genevieve Grimaldi of Monaco returns to Paris after years of traveling the world, educating herself beyond what society deems appropriate for a lady. Her free spirit, her bold clothing, and her refusal to bow her head to any man scandalize the aristocracy. To everyone, she should be seeking an obedient husband and conforming to her role as the perfect wife. But Genevieve was never one to follow rules.
When her father, the Duke of Monaco, realizes that his daughter is past the ideal age for marriage, he decides that a respectable husband must be found as soon as possible. And no one would be more suitable than the powerful and influential Monsieur Sébastien Laurent, a French banker who, in his early forties, has already amassed a fortune and an impeccable reputation in society.
Sébastien is a man of ambition and control, accustomed to having everything and everyone at his beck and call. He has no interest in marrying again, much less to a young woman who defies all the norms he values. But when fate brings them face to face, a battle of wills begins.
Genevieve refuses to be submissive, and Sébastien, for the first time, finds someone who won't bow down to him. Between heated arguments, tense encounters, and an undeniable desire that grows between them, Genevieve realizes that perhaps there is a different kind of freedom: the kind that comes from being accepted exactly as she is.
But society is watching. And one scandal could be enough to seal her fate alongside a man she swore she'd never want... or perhaps, the very man who might finally understand her indomitable soul.