The Duke’s Indecent Bargain — Paperback

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📖 Paperback Edition — He named his price on a terrace. She answered with six articles and a lawyer.

London, 1817. Clara Whitmore has kept the books of Whitmore & Company since she was fifteen. Her father left her a hundred and ten thousand pounds and an ink stain that will not wash out. Her uncle means to marry her to his son by midsummer. And she has spent the Season beside a painted pillar in Lady Harcourt’s ballroom, positioned like a fire screen.

Then Adrian Vale, ninth Duke of Wychcombe, walks out onto the terrace and does what no gentleman in London has done. He tells her exactly what he costs. Sixty thousand pounds. A house of a hundred and four rooms, twenty-two of them shut. Eleven buckets in the long gallery. A sister who must not be sold, and a mother who says trade the way other women say damp.

Clara’s answer: Friday. Noon. Bring a lawyer.

She writes six articles across eleven feet of mahogany. And a seventh that no lawyer will ever see. Her bed is her own. He comes into it by invitation. And when invited, he is expected to exert himself.

The Duke of Wychcombe exerts himself magnificently. Within weeks the marriage of convenience is the most inconvenient thing that has ever happened to either of them.

But there is a twenty-two-thousand-pound bond, a viscount with a grudge on the far side of the hedge, and a duke who would rather lose everything he owns than ask his wife for help. She could forgive him the debt. What she cannot forgive is never being asked.

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno • MF Regency Historical Romance by Evelyn Ashcombe

Tropes: Marriage of Convenience • Duke Romance • Merchant’s Daughter • Class Difference • Wealth Gap • Written Terms • Curvy Heroine • Experienced Heroine • Competence Kink • Dirty Talk • Body Worship • Touch-Starved Hero • He Falls First • 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 oral sex, manual sex, rough sex over a desk, sex in a moving carriage, outdoor sex, sex before a mirror, light bondage with the heroine tying the hero, and dirty talk; all on-page sex is consensual, with “no” honoured on the page), a heroine with a past sexual relationship and a former lover who tried to control her (off-page), period attitudes toward class, trade and women, a hero who conceals a family debt from his wife, a late father’s debts and the memory of bailiffs, a mother’s past gambling debt, the threat of foreclosure on a village, a marital separation, alcohol, strong language, and a possible pregnancy in the epilogue. No sexual violence, no dub-con, no cheating. Intended for readers 18+.

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