A Duke In Need Of A Wife [Paperback] Burrows, Annie

A duke needs an heir. A practical woman needs security. Neither expected combustion. When the Duke of Theakstone returns from war to find his title in peril, marriage isn't romantic — it's strategic. Enter Sophia, a woman who's learned that independence matters more than passion. She's prepared to negotiate a sensible arrangement. He's prepared to do his duty. What neither anticipated was the friction between them — part irritation, part attraction, entirely consuming. Annie Burrows writes Regency romance with wit and heat, stripping away the genre's stuffier conventions while keeping the ballrooms and banter intact. This is marriage-of-convenience done right: two people who think they know exactly what they're getting, slowly realising they've miscalculated entirely. For fans of Julia Quinn's humour and Lisa Kleypas's slow-burn tension.