Blame It on the Duke

the long version

Have you heard? The future Duke of Barrington has just been gambled away by his father. To an heiress!The delicious details thus far...Nicolas, Lord Hatherly, never intended to marry—nor add to the “mad” Hatherly line—but now he must honor his father’s debt to a social-climbing merchant or lose the family estate. A notoriously wild marquess, won by her father at a game of cards, is the very last thing Miss Alice Tombs wants. She’s spent the last three seasons repelling suitors in spectacular fas