A Certain Reputation

the long version

The Duke of Danger Dazzlingly beautiful Anne de Montforte was besieged by scandal. Her titled husband had died in disgrace, and she was left with two small children to raise alone. Censorious society whispered that she was a wanton woman, and the handsome, heartless Duke of Buckingham was determined to prove that those rumors were true. There was no lord in the realm more irresistible than he, or more ruthless in getting what he wanted. Anne had to defend her honor against this man who thought she had none. She had to protect her children against a furious father-in-law seeking to take them from her. And most difficult of all, she had to defeat her own growing desire for a duke who used all of his talents to undo her....