The Bedeviled Duke

the long version

HE COULD MAKE A MAIDEN BLUSH, OR A LADY LOSE HER HEART... — Miss Olivia Willburton-Smythe was beautiful, proper, and on the shelf. The Duke of Abbercombe was handsome, proper, and a confirmed bachelor. She was the soul of charity; he was rumored to have caused the ruin of many a young miss. And when Olivia agreed to introduce Abbercombe's two lovely young daughters to society, she discovered that he didn't have one set of twins... he had four! But soon, as eight lively charges began to reveal a decidedly different view of the devilish duke, Olivia decided to take a leap of faith: she asked Abbercombe to help find her missing brother. Now, in an adventure fraught with danger, duels, and deception, Olivia could very well create a scandal of her own... or uncover the truth about the man she secretly cherished -- a man who was not at all what he seemed....