A Bride for the Forbidden Duke by Ava MacAdams

“Disobey me, Duchess, and you will find out just how rough your husband can be.”

With her brother lost at sea and her mother at the mercy of a predatory lord, Lady Veronica must save her family from ruin. Desperate, she turns to the coldest Duke in the ton—a man her brother once called his friend.
No one dares come near Duke Henry; except for the spirited sister of his missing business partner. So when he finds her ensnared in a dangerous trap, he protects her by making her his Duchess.
But Veronica won’t be tamed so easily. And yet, Henry knows exactly how to make his feisty little wife obey: in the most forbidden, pleasurable ways possible…

*If you like a realistic yet steamy depiction of the Regency and Victorian era, then A Bride for the Forbidden Duke is the novel for you.