{"product_id":"to-desire-a-duke-j-j-noir-9798199904889","title":"To Desire a Duke","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eShe was always invisible to him...\u003cbr\u003eUntil the moment she became utterly irresistible.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLady Arabella Hartwell has spent years holding her crumbling family together. The dutiful daughter. The sensible sister. The woman no one truly sees. But when a blackmailer's letter threatens to destroy everything her father left behind, Arabella is forced to seek help from the one man powerful enough to save them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Duke of Ravensmere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexander Pembroke is controlled, intelligent, and dangerously difficult to read. Her late brother's closest friend, and the man who has never once looked at her twice. Pressured to marry, he proposes an arrangement both practical and perilous: Arabella will help him navigate London's marriage market and identify the perfect duchess...while he quietly protects her family from ruin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt should have been simple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead, every glance lingers too long, every charged silence across his library desk pulls them closer, and every gloved touch on a crowded ballroom floor draws Arabella deeper into the orbit of a man she can never have.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause the longer Alexander spends at her side, the more impossible it becomes to deny the desire simmering beneath his carefully controlled exterior. And the more dangerous their arrangement becomes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe needs his protection. He needs her guidance. Neither of them intended to want each other this badly. But in a world where duty matters more than love and scandal destroys lives, surrendering to temptation could cost them everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Desire a Duke\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book in The Forbidden Lives of the Ton, a steamy Regency romance featuring a deeply restrained duke, a quietly irresistible heroine, a marriage-market bargain, forbidden attraction, slow-burn tension, he-falls-harder yearning, glittering ballrooms, and sizzling on-page chemistry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. J. Noir\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798199904889\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.86d","brand":"J. J. Noir","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852939440383,"sku":"9798199904889","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/to-desire-a-duke-j-j-noir-9798199904889","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}