Regency Romance: The Duke and the Diamond (Lady Seraphina)
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He is the Winter Duke, a celebrated war hero who sees marriage as a strategic conquest.
She is the Incomparable of London, a brilliant strategist who would rather face a firing squad than a wedding altar.
He seeks to possess her; she is determined to never be owned.
Forced into a union by the King's command, their home becomes a battlefield. In a silent war of wit and will, where every glance is a gambit and every word a weapon, the only outcome is surrender.
But who will be the first to break?
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