A Fool for Love // To Seduce the Duke — Sandra Dubay

Lucy Barstow was an orphaned scullery maid when she first encountered the handsome young Marquis of Sommerville. His kindness to her was a beacon in the grim loneliness of her childhood and after she is taken to Broughton Castle to be the companion of the Honourable Sophie St. Andrews, he looms large in her secret daydreams as the epitome of a gentleman.

When Sophie is to make her debut in London, she enlists Lucy's help to humble the proud Duke of Lyndhurst. Out of loyalty, Lucy agrees to masquerade as the Princess Lucrezia di Cavalanti and try to make the Duke fall in love with her and make her a proposal of marriage.

Once the engagement is announced, Sophie will reveal Lucy's true identity and make a laughingstock of the Duke before all London Society.

But once in London, Lucy discovers that her victim was, before he inherited his dukedom, the Marquis of Sommerville. Now she has a choice to make...end her masquerade and betray the kindness the St. Andrews family has shown her, or expose a man whose kindness helped heal her broken heart so long ago to the ridicule and contempt of all his acquaintance.


Also published as: To Seduce a Duke