Folly with the Duke: A Regency Romance

By Siobhan Lynch

One moonlit escape. One ruined reputation. One marriage neither of them expected.

Lady Juliet Ashford knows her duty: smile prettily, make conversation, and wait for some titled gentleman to decide she's worth the price of her dowry. But at eighteen, she's already weary of being assessed like horseflesh-and thoroughly uninterested in the desperate mothers circling the most eligible man in England.
Lucas Ashbourne, Duke of Ashbourne, is done being hunted. Three years a widower, with a young daughter who needs a mother and an estate that needs an heir, he knows what Society expects of him. He simply cannot bring himself to want it.
When Juliet escapes the ballroom for the moonlit folly of her childhood, she finds the Duke already there hiding from the same circus she fled. One conversation becomes two. An unexpected connection sparks between them. And then they're discovered, and everything changes.
Married within a week to a man she barely knows, Juliet finds herself stepmother to six-year-old Charlotte and mistress of a grand estate. As she falls deeper in love with her new family, she begins to realize her husband is keeping secrets. Secrets about money. About her father. About a debt that's been paid in silence for eight years.
When a blackmailer threatens to expose everything, Juliet must confront the truth about her family-and decide whether love built on secrets can survive the light.
For readers who love: age-gap romance, marriage of convenience, found family, and heroines who refuse to be underestimated.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G81YZ3RB
• ISBN13: 9798278652014
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"