It's all about the duke The rakes of st. james series, book 3.

"A master storyteller."- Affaire de Coeur Nearing thirty, the Duke of Rathburne is finally ready to make amends for the wager that caused him and his best friends such scandal-but taking on a ward who needs a husbandis a feat he's not sure he can manage. The last he saw of Miss Marlena Fast,she was a spirited little ruffian, not the sort of bride most bachelors on the marriage mart sought. But one glance at the lovely lady she has become is e...