Can one lose their heart when the contract says otherwise?
London, 1812: Arthur Devlin, the tenth Duke of Vane, is known throughout society as the "Ice Duke" — distant, controlled, and haunted by the fear of inheriting his father's madness. He lives behind the walls of his palace like a man besieged, until a compromising moment in a library forces him into marriage.
Phoebe Radcliff is no ordinary debutante. She is an unassuming wallflower with the mind of an accountant and a talent for opening locked doors. To save her sisters from ruin, she agrees to a dangerous bargain with the brooding duke: a marriage that exists only on paper.
