The Duke Next Door

In the second book of the Heiress Brides trilogy, Beauty needs a Beast...Determined beauty Deirdre Cantor means to inherit her grandfather’s vast fortune and escape her stepmother's claws. All she needs is to marry a duke…and be the first granddaughter to walk down the aisle. So when Calder Marbrook, the Marquis of Brookhaven and future Duke of Brookmoor, is abandoned at the altar, Deirdre makes it her business to become his wife—in spite of the whispers about his dangerous past.Soon Deirdre’s visions of a lavish existence with the handsome Calder are shattered when she learns his shocking secret. Feeling betrayed, Deirdre seeks revenge by playing a perilous and seductive game of cat and mouse with her husband that threatens to drive them both to the heights of passion. She will not surrender to him, no matter how great her desire. Calder cannot relent, yet he must make his stunning wife his in every way that matters.Be careful into whose castle you wander!