Artemis Jones - ‘respectable’ finishing-school teacher by day and Gothic romance writer by night - has never lost sight of her real dream: to open her own academic ladies’ college. When Artemis is unexpectedly called upon by a dear friend, a fellow Byronic Book Club member, to navigate her first London Season, she comes at once. Perhaps she can court the interest of a wealthy patron for her school. As long as she can avoid her high-handed aunt’s schemes to marry her off.

Dominic Winters, the widowed Duke of Dartmoor, needs a wife - someone who will provide him with an heir and help him to manage his spitfire adolescent daughter. The problem is, Society has dubbed him ‘The Dastardly Duke.’ But then he meets the ravishing and passionate Artemis Jones, who might just be the solution he needs…

‘Bursting at the seams with delicious drama and tropes, and the solid central couple and well-crafted prose will satisfy choice historical romance readers.’ - Library Journal