About this ebook
Lewis Barrington, Duke of Whiteport × Anne Taylor
I do not crave.
I do not want.
I take what I need—and leave before it can touch me.
That was the rule.
My only rule.
Then came the widow.
Ann Taylor should have been perfect for a temporary arrangement—quiet, discreet, untouched by anything resembling desire. Something to sate the darker urges no respectable Duke should possess.
But she is not temporary.
From the first moment our bodies met, she lodged beneath my skin like a splinter. Fragile where I am forged from steel, yet she takes everything I give her and looks at me as though she wants more.
She should fear the man duty turned me into. She should run.
Instead, she endures. She tempts. She finds me in the shadows I retreat to, unraveling a control I’ve spent a lifetime perfecting.
I was never meant to want. Never meant to keep anyone.
But the widow with trembling courage and a ruined past is becoming the one thing I cannot let go.
And if I am not careful, I will do what men like me should never do:
Let her stay.
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✔ An assassin-trained Duke losing control
✔ A widow who takes everything he gives
✔ Dark tension in every stolen moment
✔ Regency shadows and forbidden encounters
✔ A man unraveling against his will
✔ A brutal, beautiful, unforgettable love story
Seven Omegas for Seven Alphas — Reading Order
The Duke’s Christmas Rejection
The Duke’s Unwilling Bride
Purchased by the Duke
In Service to the Duke
To Ensnare a Duke
Beauty and the Duke
Reclaimed by the Duke
The Duke’s Rejected Mate
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About the author
Vivian is a sassy romance writer that likes to brat just as much as she writes. As a fly-by-the-seat-of-her-pants author, she's usually working furiously into the night when her creative juices hit her the hardest. Her books like to take you to the dark side and force you to dip your toes in, but don't drown you. She loves writing alphaholes, anti-heroes, and heroes you just love to hate. She likes to try out everything she's putting her heroines through, so the phrase “for science” is used in her house a lot! When she's not writing, you can probably find her playing Animal Crossing or tormenting her cats and Husdom.
