The Wicked Ways of a Duke

Surviving on her sparse wages as a seamstress, Prudence Bosworth finally gets the chance to pursue her dreams of love, romance, and adventure when she inherits a fortune from her long-lost father--with the stipulation that she must marry in one year--and sets out to woo the man of her dreams, Rhys de Winter, the cynical Duke of St. Cyres, who is desperate to wed an heiress. Original.