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In 1812, Eleni Alexander becomes the new Duchess of Lancaster, and with this title she enters the most adored family in London, the one whose splendor never has a limit and whose every evening feels like a triumph. Maximilian married her for precise reasons, because she is of a beauty one admires more than one dares to approach, because she was born to shine in drawing rooms, because she unites two lineages already powerful, and above all because she accepts a truth no one must hear. He loves men and will never desire her the way she would want. Six months after a wedding celebrated like a historic event, Eleni is already pregnant, settled in immense estates that have become hers, surrounded by a luxury that intoxicates her as much as it exhausts her. But beneath the gilding, another danger slips in, for Christian, Maximilian's brother, seems ready to marry a widow the duchess deems unworthy, and Eleni, unable to let go, is about to defend the Lancaster name with the same fervor as she defends her own role in this union.