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Maybelle Ashcombe has been trained to be charming, obedient, and marriageable-a picture-perfect debutante with a smile sharp enough to draw blood. But beneath the silk and smiles lies a mind that craves more than polite conversation and carefully arranged matches. She wants sincerity. She wants someone who sees her, truly. Someone who tells her she is more.
General Everard Lennox has spent half his life at war and the other half trying to forget it. Stoic, gruff, and ten years too old for the ballroom's matchmaking games, he has no patience for simpering flattery or youthful giggles. But when he meets Maybelle, he sees neither. He sees brilliance. Fire. A woman so starved for praise, it feels like a sin not to give it.
He meant to keep his distance... She meant to behave.
But in a world where honor is currency and words can ruin as easily as they can seduce, the wrong compliment whispered at the right moment could start a scandal neither of them is ready to survive.
And the most dangerous thing he could ever give her... is the truth.