BOOK #3

Book #1 Of Dukes and Forbidden Words, Book #2 Scandal Amidst the Stacks. There are two things in life that Nathaniel Grossbeck, Viscount Holdcraft, is passionate about. One is bedding willing women, and the other is collecting romantic works of poetry. Though he's never tried his hand at writing his own lines, when a certain lady comes back into his life, he might put pen to paper. Trouble is, she's five years his senior and his best friend's sister besides, but would she consider an affair with him? Two years widowed, Lady Diana Woodbine-Viscountess of Adderbury-is ready to marry again, because anyone would be better than her dead husband in every aspect of life. When she stumbles into her brother's best friend during a society rout, attraction flares, and she's quite interested, even if he doesn't wish to wed. She agrees to a fling between them, for she has been woefully cheated of satisfaction from her husband, but will it be enough? As the days go by and life events temper the heated desire, the relationship that was supposed to be temporary suddenlyisn't, yet he isn't the romantic hero she'd always wanted and she's not the biddable innocent he'd assumed he'd eventually take to wife. Not to mention the match is forbidden by her brother on principal, yet scandal persists, so something must be done. The pair will need to throw out old ways of thinking if they're to move forward into a love neither thought they'd find.