The Keepsake

LIZ:

With waist-long hair as fiery as her temper, the wild-riding, very rich Lizzy Hughes of Wyoming's Double H Ranch felt her emotions boil over when she realized she had been tricked into marriage -- with a hoity-toity British duke. Handsome Grayson Brandt appeared so aloof that even her hot fury couldn't crack his icy facade. She agreed to take her place at magnificent Ashleigh Hall. His ancestral home in Britain -- but not in his bed. Now, her turquoise eyes flashing, she felt the explosive impact of both his unexpected kiss and his order to stay quietly at their country estate. Obey his order? Not Lizzy Hughes. Gathering up her courage, the beautiful, outrageous new Duchess of Ashleigh set out to join the haughty, elegant London ton....

GRAY:

His silver eyes frosty, his mouth a hard line, stern Grayson Brandt was less than cool inside. the high-spirited heiress he had married wasn't the meek, compliant Victorian miss he wanted. This American Lizzy was all spitfire and sass. He was supposed to be her lord and master, but one reckless embrace had nearly undone him. He believed she'd never make a proper Duchess, impeccably mannered and regal enough to brush shoulders with royalty. Yet passion was driving him to seduce her, to bind her to him with desire ... to risk falling in love with this irresistibly un-English young woman who just might melt his heart....