Defying the Duke: Book 3 Victorian Novella Series

All Miss Georgina Wakefield wants is to lead a simple and peaceful life. Instead, she is left frantic and destitute after the scandalous disappearance of her mother. Without the means to afford her meager lifestyle, she is forced into the dreaded workhouse. Georgina endures a year of hard, laborious work to provide a cold, dirty roof over her head and gruel in her belly until a stranger gives her a chance.

Now surrounded by elegance, kindness, and aristocrats, Georgina finds herself indebted and endeared to Lady Margaret, the Countess of Blakley. While encouraged to mingle among polite society, she resents the unwanted attentions of the many suitors that Lady Margaret parades before her.

Johannes Lymington, the Duke of Hayward, figures he has a few more years before finding a bride. Johannes understands his duty to the dukedom looms ahead and one day he will have to pick a suitable bride to further his aristocratic line. In his mind, he envisions his future countess as beautiful, soft-spoken, refined, and from a noble family. But he intends to enjoy being a bachelor until the bitter end.

Yet things don't always go as we plan or imagine. And when the wayward, off-limits Georgina Wakefield enters his life, Johannes questions everything he thought he once wanted in life.

Join Lady Margaret in "Defying the Duke," a tale of a meddling, busy-body countess, an unsuitable, penniless, uninterested beauty, and a stubborn, devilishly handsome, but honorable duke.