How to Buck a Duke Without Even Trying

She makes music. He makes scandals. Until desire unmakes them both.

Marianne Vyler is a penniless debutante, trapped by guardians and ghastly suitors. Her only escape is moonlighting as a harpist in London’s most notorious townhouse — where masked men revel with enraptured women.
Frederick Clare, Duke of FitzOsbern, is the High Buckthorn himself: libertine leader of the Grand Bucks. Yet one harpist’s haunting melody unravels him. When the curtain falls and Marianne beholds him bare, Frederick swears she will be his.
Now wed, they must confront secrets, shame, and the dangerous desires neither can deny. Can a duke terrified of corrupting his innocent bride confess he is the masked stag of her darkest dreams? And when she dares him to chase her into the woods, will their union survive the hunt?

How to Buck a Duke Without Even Trying is a standalone, 17,000-word blazing Victorian romance featuring a sheltered musician, a socially inept duke with a dominant streak, masked revels, forest pursuits, and a happily ever after as wild as the Bucks themselves.