Kissing the Duke of Hearts: Sweet and Clean Regency Romance (His Majesty's Hounds #10) by Arietta Richmond

This man does not deserve this woman. Isabella is a warm and delightful woman. Although she connects with him at the ball, he is obvious to who she actually is. He suspects that Isabella is the woman from the Masquerade, but doesn't want it to be her because of her merchant class birth. She is hurt by the Duke's attitude toward her, but she knows the real man inside. She doesn't know if she can reach him, so instead of chasing him, she loves him without him realizing that she is doing it. Fate has a way if intervening and the Duke's almost fatal accident at the gate of her family is it. I've enjoyed all of these books, but I think I like Isabella the most and the Duke the least of all the heroes and heroines. Maybe, I feel that the author could have gave this woman a better husband. In this case, it's the woman who makes the man.