Jack Audley ha sido muchas cosas: salteador de caminos, soldado… y un auténtico granuja. Lo que no es, y nunca será, es un par del reino responsable de una antigua herencia que da de comer a cientos de personas. Pero cuando es reconocido como el hijo perdido de la casa de Wyndham, se acaba su vida despreocupada. Y si se demuestra que su nacimiento es legítimo, entonces se verá con un título que nunca ha deseado: duque de Wyndham. Grace Eversleigh ha pasado los últimos cinco años de su vida trabajando duramente como dama de compañía de la duquesa viuda de Wyndham. Es un trabajo nada agradecido, en el que apenas queda espacio para salir de la rutina… hasta que Jack Audley entra en su vida, un hombre que es todo sonrisas pícaras y afable encanto. Jack no es la clase de hombre que acepta un no por respuesta, y cuando Grace se encuentra en sus brazos, se convierte una mujer que lo último que desea es decir que no. Pero si es el verdadero duque, entonces Jack es el único hombre al que nunca podrá tener…

Jack Audley has been a highwayman. A soldier. And he has always been a rogue. What he is not, and never wanted to be, is a peer of the realm, responsible for an ancient heritage and the livelihood of hundreds. But when he is recognized as the long-lost son of the House of Wyndham, his carefree life is over. And if his birth proves to be legitimate, then he will find himself with the one title he never wanted: Duke of Wyndham. Grace Eversleigh has spent the last five years toiling as the companion to the dowager Duchess of Wyndham. It is a thankless job, with very little break from the routine… until Jack Audley lands in her life, all rakish smiles and debonair charm. He is not a man who takes no for an answer, and when she is in his arms, she's not a woman who wants to say no. But if he is the true duke, then he is the one man she can never have…

Amelia Willoughby has been engaged to the Duke of Wyndham for as long as she can remember. Literally. A mere six months old when the contracts were signed, she has spent the rest of her life waiting. And waiting. And waiting… for Thomas Cavendish, the oh-so-lofty duke, to finally get around to marrying her. But as she watches him from afar, she has a sneaking suspicion that he never thinks about her at all… It's true. He doesn't. Thomas rather likes having a fiancée – all the better to keep the husband-hunters at bay – and he does intend to marry her… eventually. But just when he begins to realize that his bride might be something more than convenient, Thomas's world is rocked by the arrival of his long-lost cousin, who may or may not be the true Duke of Wyndham. And if Thomas is not the duke, then he's not engaged to Amelia. Which is the cruelest joke of all, because this arrogant and illustrious duke has made the mistake of falling in love… with his own fiancée!