The Duke's Disappearance

Love and deceit intertwine when a spirited beauty and a proud lord meet in a mad masquerade.

LOVE IN HIDING

Lady Julia Granby wanted no man. This ravishing young widow preferred to remain faithful to the memory of her husband and to go into hiding from the self-seeking suitors who swarmed around her and her fabulous fortune.

The Duke of Wayland trusted no woman. This arrogant outspoken lord had been betrayed once, and that was enough to make him flee to London filled with beautiful and faithless women.

Both Julia and the Duke made it emphatically clear to the world that they would have nothing to do with love. So it was not surprising that when love came to them, it came in the only way it could--in a most devilishly devious disguise...