When the Duke Returns

Description

Married by proxy as a child, Lady Isidore has spent eleven years waiting for the Duke of Cosway to return—only to discover that the man she’s longed for arrives with expectations she can’t possibly meet. When Simeon’s home is in turmoil and his family name is stained by the past, Isidore must navigate a marriage that may be annulled, even as she refuses to be reduced to a dutiful role. As their carefully constructed assumptions collide, a wider web of desire and rivalry—featuring a duchess, her husband, and the duke who complicates everything—tightens the stakes. With Eloisa James’s signature wit and sparkling Regency sensibility, this installment of the Desperate Duchesses series blends romantic tension, social maneuvering, and the question of what it truly means to choose love on one’s own terms.