The Duke’s Uninvited Guest
Valerie, a Baron’s daughter with more pluck than sense, finds herself stranded on the Great North Road after a carriage wheel yields to a Scottish snowstorm. Traveling without a maid is a scandal waiting to happen, yet she manages to impose upon the realm’s most committed recluse: the Duke of Blackwood.
Adrian is less a host and more a permanent fixture of the shadows, nursing a family Christmas curse with the dedication of a man who truly enjoys his own misery. Enter Valerie—a relentless burst of optimism in a drafty, somber manor. While the Blackwood curse provides the Gothic backdrop, the real story lies in her ability to dismantle Adrian’s defenses. Even this angry beast cannot stay indifferent to her light for long.
The plot is sturdy and the pace brisk. It is a sharp, warm tale of a woman with a difficult past who refuses to let a grumpy Duke—or a blizzard—dim her spirit. Apparently, even the most ancient of curses is no match for a woman who knows how to knock on the right door.
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