The Cold Duke’s Heart (Dukes of Deception Book 1)

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“He believes feeling is weakness. She believes walls exist to be opened.”

Daniel Wynthorpe, Duke of Wyntham, is known for his cold restraint and unyielding composure. He governs his estate and his life, with logic alone, convinced that emotion leads only to ruin. Love, he believes, is a luxury he cannot afford.

Lillian Whitcombe has never accepted such limits.

Thoughtful, perceptive, and quietly resolute, Lillian sees beyond the duke’s distant manner to the wounds beneath. When circumstances place her within Daniel’s guarded world, her calm intelligence and gentle honesty begin to unsettle the careful order he has built around his heart.

Daniel fights his growing regard for her at every turn. Yet the more he observes her courage and compassion, the more he begins to question the walls he has relied upon for safety. For the first time, he is forced to confront a dangerous truth: solitude may protect him, but it has also cost him everything that matters.

As duty, expectation, and buried fears threaten to pull them apart, Daniel must decide whether a life without love is truly security . . . or simply another form of loss.