Survival required a title. Love demanded the truth.

When destitution forced Harmony Belle to choose between the streets and deception, she invented a title—Duchess of Kingsley—and claimed it as her own. The lie secured her a governess position and kept her alive. What it couldn't do was prepare her for the real Duke of Kingsley: devastatingly handsome, infuriatingly proper, and entirely unaware he'd been "married" for three years.

Stratford Dunhurst built his life on control. After losing his parents, the Duke of Kingsley created an orderly world for himself and his sister—one that shatters the day his former mistress abandons a baby on his doorstep. Marriage to a respectable young lady will restore his reputation. But first, he must deal with the marriage voucher that shouldn't exist and track down the audacious woman who dared steal his name.

When Harmony and Stratford finally meet, sparks fly and propriety crumbles. She refuses to apologize for surviving. He refuses to forgive her deception. But as desire ignites between a duke who demands perfection and a woman who's never had anything to lose, they'll discover that some chaos can only be conquered by fate—or surrendered to completely.

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