Two strangers are swept right into a sizzling, spellbinding world of daring deception and unexpected passion .

Marcus Reese, Duke of Exeter, has spent most of his existence pulling his twin brother out of problems. A thank you would suffice; instead, his resentful sibling forges his name to a relationship license and presents him with an unwanted wife. She’s a vicar’s widow using a mind of her own, and the first person in Marcus’s well-ordered existence to create him feel . . . completely uncontrollable.

Dire straits possess led Hannah to the altar using a gentleman she hardly knows. Played to get a fool, she’s humiliated, furious, and worse, married to an similarly outraged, exasperating man who unleashes all manner of emotions in her-not to mention undesirable desire. Reluctantly, Hannah agrees to try out the wife until he can straighten out the clutter. However the undeniably appealing Duke unsettles her well-guarded heart-making her wish to accomplish so much more than ‘act’ the function of blissful bride . . .