How to Tempt a Tortured Duke: A Historical Steamy Regency Romance Novel (The Rules of Ruin Book 1)

“They said the Duke of Ravensfield came back from the war wrong.
They were lying. He came back wounded.”

And the only person who knows the difference is the herbalist who finds him shaking on a forest road, counting his breaths in sets of four.

“Five things you can see. Four things you can hear. Three things you can touch.”

That’s how she keeps him in the present. That’s how she keeps him alive.

Nathaniel Warrick should be in London charming the ton. Instead the seventh Duke of Ravensfield is hiding at a forest lodge, praying no one catches a duke shaking like a boy on an empty road.

No one does.

Except her.

Marian Farrow has dirt beneath her nails and lavender in her hair. Her mother taught her to mend soldiers, body and mind, and the broken duke at her cottage door is just another patient.

He is not just another patient.

A duke does not kneel for a herb-witch in a forest cottage.

A herb-witch does not let a duke take her on her own workbench.

They do it anyway.

But Lord Hadley wants Ravensfield’s land, and a duke who flinches at thunder is a duke who can be declared unfit.

There is a price for loving Nathaniel Warrick.
She would pay it twice.

A scandalous, steamy Regency romance of passion, danger, and forbidden desire. Perfect for readers who crave dark-edged dukes, electric banter, forbidden touches, and scorching Regency tension. This story brings intensity, heat, and a love that refuses to be denied.

No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a beautifully satisfying happily ever after full of romance.

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