A Lady Of Her Own
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✨ A Lady of Her Own
Victorian Era | Slow Burn | Black Aristocracy | Hidden Identity | Fashion & Forbidden Romance
Lady Selene Fairbourne was born to marry well, speak softly, and never outshine a man.
But Selene has other plans.
With a sketchbook tucked beneath her pillow and her dreams stitched between secret seams, she lives a double life-one as the perfect daughter of a noble house, the other as E. Fair, an anonymous dressmaker capturing the eyes of Europe's fashion elite.
Everything is perfectly hidden... until she catches the attention of Lord Dorian Thorne.
The Duke of Ravencourt is feared, powerful, and entirely uninterested in marriage. But when he discovers the truth behind her designs, he doesn't expose her-he protects her. Funds her. Watches her from the shadows with a hunger he refuses to name.
He's her greatest risk.
She's his greatest temptation.
And in a world where a lady's name means everything, Selene must decide if love is worth surrendering the only thing she's ever truly owned-herself.
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