A Matchmaker for a Duke

When a scandalous collision leads to a marriage of convenience, can two wounded hearts find love in the ruins of their reputations?

Arabella Montgomery never expected her secret career as a matchmaker to destroy her own chances at happiness. But one accidental encounter with the brooding Duke of Blackwood sets off a chain of misunderstandings that threatens everything she's worked to build. With her family's survival depending on her success and her sister's debut season at stake, Arabella can't afford the duke's campaign to expose her schemes even if his dark intensity makes her pulse race in ways she's never experienced.

Tristan Blackwood, Duke of Blackwood, learned the hard way that love is a battlefield where trust is the first casualty. Betrayed by his lover and best friend, he's built walls around his heart that no society miss could breach. But when he overhears Arabella coaching women in matters of romance, he's convinced she's just another manipulator playing with men's hearts. He's determined to protect other gentlemen from her schemes until a moment of ruinous passion forces them into a marriage neither wanted.

Now bound together by scandal and duty, Arabella and Tristan must navigate a marriage built on mistrust while their meddling friends scheme to bring them together. As long-buried secrets surface and old enemies plot their downfall, they'll discover that the greatest risk isn't to their reputations, it's to the hearts they've both sworn to protect.

Can two people who've given up on love find their way to happily ever after, or will their wounded pasts destroy their chance at a future together?

A passionate enemies-to-lovers Regency romance featuring a secret matchmaker heroine, a cynical war veteran hero, meddling friends.