The Duke's Only Desire

Lady Sophie Winter and Shay Douglass fell in love the moment they met. But she had been contracted for marriage to his older brother John, and, as a second son, Shay had been destined for a soldier's life. Their love could never be...until a tragic fire changed everything. Cursed by the events of that night and accusations he murdered his own brother to claim the dukedom-and his brother's fiancâee-for himself, retreated to his isolated estate a scarred and broken man, determined to live out the rest of his days in self-exile and never see Sophie again. Yet fate has other plans. Ten years later, on the night that Sophie plans to announce her engagement, Shay returns to enforce the old marriage contract that weds her to the Duke of Malvern...to him. Forced unwillingly into a marriage to the man who irreparably shattered her heart, Sophie must find a way to finally exorcise the ghosts of their pasts and heal the scars that still torture both of them, or forever end all hope for love.--Publisher marketing.