When Desire Defies Deception: A Regency Romance of Secrets, Ambition, and Unexpected Love
She meant to win his title. She never intended to lose her heart.
In Regency London, a brilliant mind can be a woman's greatest asset-or her most dangerous secret.
Miss Genevieve Hayes has little time left. With her family facing financial ruin and the threat of debtors' prison looming, she must find a way to save them before everything they own is lost.
Her answer is audacious: win the hand of Lord Alistair Sterling, the formidable Earl of Winterbourne.
Wealthy, proud, and notoriously indifferent to society's charms, Alistair is no ordinary bachelor. Flattery leaves him cold. Beauty alone cannot impress him. He wants a woman who can challenge his intellect, question his convictions, and meet his formidable mind as an equal.
Fortunately, Genevieve knows precisely how to capture his attention.
Armed with her wit, knowledge, and carefully calculated charm, she sets out to become the one woman the earl cannot dismiss. There is only one complication: she must outmaneuver Lydia Carmichael, the ambitious socialite who has set her own sights on Alistair-and who would relish nothing more than seeing Genevieve's family destroyed.
But a calculated courtship is one thing; falling in love is quite another.
As their exchanges spark an unexpected emotional connection, Genevieve grapples with her initial deceptions. And the closer Alistair comes to discovering the truth, the more devastating the consequences may become.
Genevieve must face a question more perilous than whether she can win an earl: can a love born of deception survive the truth?
When Desire Defies Deception novel is perfect for readers who enjoy intelligent heroines, powerful earls, slow-burning romantic tension, and love stories in which the greatest gamble is the heart.
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