Lady Elenor Hartwyck has always done what duty demanded. As the eldest of the Hartwyck sisters, she has spent years protecting her family and putting their needs before her own. Love was never part of her plans—until an unexpected proposal changes everything. Haunted by the scars of war, Duke Alexander Ashford needs a duchess, not a love story. A marriage of convenience seems the perfect solution, but Elenor’s warmth and quiet strength begin to break through the walls around his guarded heart. As whispers of scandal spread through London society and hidden enemies threaten their future, Elenor and the duke must decide whether to cling to duty—or risk everything for a love neither of them expected. Filled with dazzling ballrooms, grand country estates, witty banter, unforgettable characters, and a heartwarming romance, The Duke’s Unexpected Duchess is the enchanting first novel in The Hartwyck Sisters series. Because a Hartwyck lady bows to no one but her heart.

Ravensglen, Book Two The wedding is over. The harder work begins. Isla Kerr is Duchess of Ravensglen now - but a title is not the same as acceptance, and the court that watched a herbalist's daughter marry a duke has not stopped waiting for her to prove it was all a mistake. Lord Hume has gone quiet, not conceded. Lady Sinclair has not forgotten her cousin's disgrace. And every drawing room in Scotland is still asking the same question: does she truly belong here, or was she only ever the old Queen's passing fancy? Then Isla notices a cough that won't leave. A breathlessness Margaret waves away as nothing. A fear Isla recognizes instantly, having watched it once before, in a father she couldn't save. As Margaret's health begins its slow, unstoppable decline, Isla finds herself fighting on two fronts at once - proving her legitimacy to a court that has never fully trusted her, and holding a private grief she cannot yet share with the husband she loves. Alasdair, forced to confront the possibility of losing his mother, must decide whether to retreat once more into the fortress grief once taught him to build - or let his wife carry him through a loss neither of them can prevent. Season Two is the story of a woman who stops being chosen and becomes, fully and unmistakably, herself - earning, through crisis and scandal and quiet daily courage, a place at Ravensglen's head that no one can ever again call an accident of royal favor. And it is the story of a queen's final gift: not a crown, not a title, but the certainty, given before she goes, that the daughter she found on a storm-swept road was always worthy of everything that finding brought her. A story of inherited grief, earned belonging, and the particular strength it takes to love someone through a loss you can see coming, one slow day at a time.

When Isla MacRae runs into a Highland storm to save a stranger dying on the moor road, she has no notion that the old woman she carries home to her father's cottage is Margaret, Queen of Scots - traveling in secret, and about to change the course of Isla's life entirely. Grateful beyond measure, and utterly certain of her own instincts, the Queen makes a decision no one asks her to make: Isla MacRae, herbalist's daughter, debtor's heir, will marry her son. There's only one problem. The Duke of Ravensglen doesn't want a wife. Alasdair Kerr has spent three years turning grief into armor, and he has no intention of letting a stranger - however brave, however plainly, infuriatingly honest - anywhere near the parts of himself he's worked so hard to wall off. Isla, for her part, wants nothing to do with being anyone's political convenience, crown or no crown. But a corrupt laird, a mounting debt, and a mother's unshakable will leave neither of them much choice. What begins as a marriage neither wanted becomes something else entirely - a slow, reluctant unraveling of walls three years in the building, tested by scandal, danger, and a court that never stops watching. Before Isla can become the duchess Margaret always believed she could be, she'll have to win over a kingdom that doubts her - and a duke who has forgotten how to let himself want anything at all. A story of storms and second chances, crowns earned rather than born, and the particular courage it takes to love someone who has learned that loving hurts.

Bride for the Cursed Duke of Ardnamurchan Lady Fenella Munro has no illusions about why she’s marrying a stranger. Her family is drowning in debt, and Ewan Blackwood, Duke of Ardnamurchan, has offered to settle every shilling of it — in exchange for a bride. That he’s buried two fiancées already, both under circumstances the Highlands still whisper about, is simply the price of saving everyone she loves. She arrives at his storm-battered castle expecting a monster. She finds instead a duke drowning in debt, haunted by grief he’s never been allowed to name, and guarding a locked door at the end of a corridor no servant will walk after dark. The deeper Fenella digs into her new husband’s past, the clearer it becomes that Ardnamurchan isn’t cursed — it’s being carefully, patiently bled dry by someone the family has trusted for years. And as she and Ewan close in on the truth, she realizes the danger isn’t behind them. It’s sitting across the dinner table, refilling her wine, and calling her cousin. A slow-burn Highland romance of forced marriage, buried secrets, and a duchess who refuses to be anyone’s next quiet tragedy.