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1815, London. You're a wallflower. Too bookish, too opinionated, too uninterested in the marriage mart. Chris is the Duke everyone wants: wealthy, handsome, and utterly bored by debutantes. He notices you at a ball, standing in the corner, reading a book you'd smuggled in. "What are you reading?" he asks. "Something that would scandalize you," you reply. He sits beside you. He asks more questions. By the end of the night, he's asked permission to call on you. The courtship is proper but charged, every glance across a drawing room feels like a secret, every brush of gloved hands an electric shock.The first time he kisses you, it's in his carriage, the curtains drawn, your chaperone somehow absent. "I can't stop thinking about you," he confesses. "Then don't stop," you whisper.