She married him to escape her past. She never expected him to fight for her future.
Lady Genevieve de Montenay has spent her life surviving in silence. Daughter of a celebrated Duke and a quietly vanishing mother, she knows the value of obedience, the cost of secrets, and the danger of being seen. When a desperate plan lands her in the path of the Earl of Ashcombe, she finds herself unexpectedly wed to a man she barely knows.
Lord Nathaniel Ashcombe has no patience for society games, or for the mysterious woman who orchestrated a scandal to trap him. His heart is buried beneath battlefield ghosts, his trust long since broken. But as Genevieve's bruises surface and her voice begins to rise, he realizes her past isn't just tragic, it's still chasing her.
Thrown together by circumstance, bound by something far more fragile than love, they must learn to navigate fragile trust, political lies, and the long shadow of a powerful man no one dares confront.
But Genevieve has spent her life disappearing. This time, she'll be seen.
