When a household head schemes to hide his own niece before a powerful duke's visit, ashamed of the scandal in her past and the plainness of her station, he never imagines that the very first guest through his door has already met her — and has already chosen her. What follows is a quiet, overworked young woman's collision with a brooding nobleman who refuses to let society's cruelty decide who deserves to be seen. Against every calculation of rank and fortune, he claims her openly, in front of the very people who tried hardest to erase her.

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