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THE DUKE
By: Anna Cowan

St. Martin's Griffin
May 2026
On Sale: April 28, 2026
Featuring: Celine Genet; Kate Howard
352 pages
ISBN: 125038284X
EAN: 9781250382849
Kindle: B0DPV2QL8F
Trade Paperback / e-Book
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Romance Historical | LGBTQ | Romance LGBTQ

The duke who fears nothing…

Kate Howard, the Duke of Howard, is known throughout Europe as a merciless autocrat who none dares to cross. Consumed by an old, bitter rivalry, she avoids the ballrooms where debutantes gather. She has vowed never to trap a woman into marriage with a monster like herself.

Until the woman she never forgot walks through her door…

Desperate to escape the guillotine, the beautiful, ambitious courtesan Celine Genet once threw herself on the mercy of the visiting Duke of Howard. But after a night of searing passion the duke left her to the ravages of Revolutionary Paris and didn’t look back. Now Celine is in London and in possession of a dangerous letter that proves the Duke of Howard committed treason as a child – and possibly even murder.

And brings her to her knees…

In return for keeping the duke’s secret, Celine wants a titled husband, leaving Kate no choice but to return to the ballrooms of her youth. But as Celine transforms from the desperate vagrant who dared blackmail a duke into a fashionable young beauty taking society by storm, Kate faces an impossible choice: keep her childhood secret, or win the woman she loves.

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