Romance: Regency Romance: The Duke's Nephew (Arranged Marriage Duke Taboo Victorian Aristocracy Romance) (Regency Victorian Military Fiction Romance)

Zita Cross does not think of herself as Zita Bagstock, though she has been married to Maynard Bagstock, Duke of Bainmore, for a year. He is an old, revolting man who has done nothing but make her life misery since they married. Zita didn’t want to marry him, but the last unmarried daughter of a distinguished family has little say in the matter.

Her life trundles on miserably, until Saul Cartwright, Maynard’s nephew, visits Castle Bainmore. He is young, handsome, and kind, nothing at all like his depraved uncle. They know it is wrong, but they begin to have feelings for each other. Illicit, scandalous feelings.

And now Maynard’s life of indulgence is catching up on him. Zita is torn between keeping up appearances and caring for her dying, aged husband, and spending her days with her new lover, the man who makes her happy, the man who brings a sliver of light into her life. If it is a choice between the Duke and the Duke’s nephew, Zita knows who she’s siding with.