SellyDMelly
In the glittering, ruthless world of London high society, the safest place to be is invisible.
Lady Eleanor "Nora" of Stratford has perfected the art of hiding in plain sight. As a quiet, unremarkable wallflower, she spends her evenings blending into the velvet curtains, safely out of reach of scandalous rakes and matchmaking mothers. Her only true torment is Julian, the Duke of Blackwood. As her brother's fiercely brooding best friend, the Duke is a notorious tyrant of decorum who makes it his personal mission to police Eleanor's every move, bow, and breath.
But a masquerade ball offers a rare taste of freedom. Hidden behind a delicate silver fox mask, the demure wallflower completely vanishes, replaced by a witty, sharp-tongued siren. When she is swept into a breathless waltz by a towering stranger in a gilded wolf mask, Eleanor makes a fatal, scandalous mistake: she accidentally insults the dreadful Duke of Blackwood to the stranger's face.
She thinks her secret is safe. She is terribly, wonderfully wrong.
Beneath the gold wolf mask is Julian himself. And rather than being outraged by her defiance, the stoic Duke is utterly captivated. Having spent three agonizing years suppressing a fierce, fiercely protective obsession for his best friend's little sister, Julian realizes the cunning woman beneath the mask is exactly the prize he has been waiting for.
When the sun rises, the Duke's pristine restraint completely snaps. He refuses to let his Fox retreat back into the shadows. Now, Eleanor must navigate a treacherous social season where the most dangerous predator in London is no longer protecting her from afar-he is actively, relentlessly hunting her heart.
And this is one Wolf who plays for keeps.