By Sabrina Jeffries
*They are The Duke’s Men*—an investigative service provider born out of relatives delight and impossible to resist ardour . . . and so they probability their lives and hearts to solve any stunning deception or scandalous transgression!
Maximilian Cale, the Duke of Lyons, authorised some time past that his abducted brother was once useless. while a cryptic word from investigator Tristan Bonnaud claims differently, Max seeks out Tristan’s sister, Lisette—and is infuriated to benefit that Tristan has mysteriously vanished. Have the siblings perpetrated an complex hoax? Or is the fiercely protecting good looks as blameless as she claims?
Fearful that the robust duke will ruin Tristan’s occupation in his zeal for the reality, the shrewdpermanent Lisette convinces Max to accompany her to Paris in a joint look for their household. yet their trip takes a seductive twist after they pose as a standard husband and wife—not an English duke with a tarnished kinfolk identify and the illegitimate daughter of a viscount—and become aware of a thrilling ardour unfastened from the damning secrets and techniques of the previous. With the road among risk and wish enticingly blurred, they observe that a few mysteries, like these of the guts, are responded tenfold within the bliss of a real and trusting love.
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