Gardenia
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Last published Thu, Apr 2, 2026
Nicolas Vansteenberghe, Viscount of the most prestigious estate in all of the Ton, has long resolved that love is an indulgence he cannot afford. His betrothal is sensible, advantageous, and entirely unromantic-precisely as intended.
Which is why it is intolerable that the woman who unsettles him most is not his future bride, but her friend and far more aggravating companion, Olandria Carthen. Olandria is sharp where he expects softness, defiant where he demands decorum, and dangerously perceptive of the man he keeps so carefully restrained.
Olandria insists she despises him just as much and Nic convinces himself his fixation is irritation.
Yet with every glance and every conversation edged too close to truth, duty begins to tremble beneath desire. And in a season built on restraint, nothing is more scandalous than wanting precisely what one must never have.
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