The Siren's Duke
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Cressida Cowper knows exactly how her story is supposed to end-and she refuses to live it.
Armed with knowledge of the future, she sets her sights on the one man determined never to marry: Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings. While London whispers about the beautiful Siren of the Ton, suitors shower her with gifts, Simon grows dangerously possessive, and Cressida quietly plays a game no one realizes has begun.
After all, she didn't come here for redemption.
She came to become a Duchess.
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