A Sweet Seduction (Completed)

Miss Rosalie Blanchett is an immortal living a lie, though she doesn't know the half of it. She is haunted by the memory of a past tragedy, an agonizing loss she must mourn in absolute silence to protect her standing in society. But while she guards her heartbreak, a far greater threat lurks in her own home. Her cruel stepmother holds a ruinous leverage over her future, keeping her completely blind to a scandalous secret regarding her true legitimacy. Seeking a temporary reprieve from her stifling world, she slips into a grand masquerade, unaware that her fate is about to be sealed.
Julian Belmont, the Duke of Brittany, rules his world with an iron fist and a frozen soul. An immortal peer of unmatched influence, he learned long ago that vulnerability is a lethal error, having been brutally betrayed by the one woman he dared to trust centuries prior. He looks upon the grand ballrooms with utter scorn, certain that the superficial games of the aristocracy have nothing of substance to offer.
The masks of high society finally slip away when Julian and Rosalie collide on the crowded dance floor of a grand masquerade, where a single, breathless waltz sparks an immediate, consuming desire. Cloaked in secrecy, they discover a rare sanctuary in each other's embrace, oblivious to the storm gathering just outside the ballroom doors. But with a wicked stepmother prepared to unleash explosive secrets that the young debutante doesn't even know she possesses, and the Duke's past traumas ensuring he will never forgive a hidden truth, their fragile world threatens to splinter. To save what they've found, they must confront the deepest agony of the past and risk total exposure-or be torn apart forever.