De Montfort Heiress
On a storm-lashed night in 1805, an orphaned infant is brought to De Montfort Duchy and claimed as one of its own. Raised among four brothers in one of England’s most powerful noble houses, Sophia de Montfort grows from cherished child into a young woman of rare beauty, wit, and quiet strength.
By the time she reaches society, she is everything the marriage market desires—graceful, spirited, and the daughter of a great estate. Suitors circle. Alliances are whispered. Futures are negotiated in drawing rooms and candlelit corridors. Sophia, believing in love, sets her heart where it chooses—unaware of the deeper currents moving beneath the surface.
For Laurence, the Duke of De Montfort and her not-by-blood brother, devotion has always been simple: protect her, provide for her, ensure her happiness. Yet as she steps into womanhood and toward marriage, that devotion becomes far more dangerous—and far more difficult to contain.
While Sophia navigates the trials of love, reputation, expectation, and betrayal, she remains unaware that the fiercest heart in the room beats not among her suitors… but beside her.
A sweeping Regency drama of desire, loyalty, and forbidden longing, this is the story of a woman every man wants—and the one man who must never claim her.