So why won't a confirmed scoundrel let her be as bad as she wants to be? Happily, she knows the perfect tutor - Alexander Ramsey, her late brother's best friend and a notorious rogue.

If nice no longer works for her, then it's time to learn to be naughty. When a cad jilts her at the altar - again - the scandal has her outraged friends calling for blood. But what she's best known and loved for is being so very, very nice. Gwen Maudsley is pretty enough to be popular, and plenty wealthy, too. She's been burned not once but twice by London's so-called gentlemen. Looking for more Meredith Duran novels? Try Written On Your Skin or her Rules for the Reckless series. But in a time of terrible darkness, he and Emma will discover that love itself can be perilous - and that a single decision can alter one's life forever.Ī lifetime of grief later, in a cold London spring, Emma and Julian must finally confront the truth: no matter how hard one tries to deny it, some pasts cannot be disowned.and some passions never die. Cynical and impatient with both worlds, Julian has never imagined that the place he might belong is in the embrace of a woman with a reluctant laugh and haunted eyes. In London, they toast Sinclair with champagne. She must turn for help to the one man whom she should not trust, but cannot resist: Julian Sinclair, the dangerous and dazzling heir to the Duke of Auburn. But when the pillars of privilege topple, her fiance's betrayal leaves Emma no choice. Sick of tragedy, done with rebellion, Emmaline Martin vows to settle quietly into British Indian society.

Fans of Julia Quinn, Jane Feather and Eloisa James will delight in Meredith's trademark headstrong heroine, cunning hero and tale of deep emotional intensity! Meredith Duran returns with another witty, humorous and smart romance.

The Duke of Shadows by Meredith Duran