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📖 Paperback Edition — She doesn’t sign for goods unseen. He hasn’t let anyone see him in seven years.

London, 1888. Vivian Hartwell is an American railroad heiress with a million-dollar dowry, a mother determined to buy her a coronet, and fingertips stained brown from developing her own photographs. Every gentleman in London has priced her. Not one has asked what she points the camera at.

Then the Duke of Ravenswick does.

Alistair Rowan is the most notorious man in England: the duke who ruined a girl and refused to marry her. His abbey leaks in eleven places. His name has kept his sister off every dance card in London for seven years. And on the night they meet he tells Vivian the truth: he needs her money, and wanting her is going to be damnably inconvenient for them both.

So she writes the terms herself. Two hundred thousand pounds, once. A room of her own with the bolt on the inside. No entitlement to her bed. And one clause no lawyer will ever see: either of us may ask for anything; neither of us may assume.

In the dark, the marriage of convenience works beautifully. He makes her ask for everything in plain words, and gives her every single thing she asks for. In daylight, London begins politely improving her, one inch at a time, and the price of letting the wicked duke back into society starts to look a great deal like his wife.

He can give her a title, a roof, and every pleasure she has the nerve to name. The one thing she needs is for him to stand up in a room full of people and let her be exactly who she is.

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno • MF Gilded Age Historical Romance by Evelyn Ashcombe

Tropes: Marriage of Convenience • American Heiress • Disgraced Duke • Class Difference • Wealth Gap • Opposites Attract • Written Terms • He Falls First • First Time • Sexual Awakening • Photographer Heroine • Competence Kink • Dirty Talk • Public Grovel

Paperback details: 6 × 9 in • cream paper • matte cover. Includes a link to the exclusive bonus chapter.

⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic MF scenes, including a heroine’s first time, oral sex, manual sex, rough sex with dirty talk and degrading language requested by the heroine, hair pulling, consensual nude photography, sex against a door and a window, and masturbation; all on-page sex is consensual and negotiated, with a safe word honored on the page), period attitudes toward women, class and Americans, a controlling mother and social coercion, a family’s public shaming of the hero, a past off-page story of a young woman pressured toward a marriage by her father and a pregnancy outside marriage, a marital separation, mild injury from a past riding accident, alcohol, and strong language. No sexual violence, no dub-con, no cheating. Intended for readers 18+.

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