The Wrong Brother’s Duchess - A Steamy Modern Duke Billionaire Romance with an Arranged Marriage, Runaway Groom, Reformed Playboy Hero, and Ice Queen Bride #987916

She came to marry the heir. She left the altar with his brother.

Caroline Bell was raised to be flawless: elegant, controlled, untouchable, and useful to the billionaire empire that bears her family name. Her arranged marriage to Thomas Mercer, the polished heir to an old British dukedom, was supposed to protect two powerful families. Bell money would save Ashford Park. Mercer prestige would clean the Bell name.

Then Thomas disappears on their wedding day.

The guests are seated. The cameras are waiting. The press is already circling.

And Thomas has vanished with another woman and a stolen file dangerous enough to destroy both families.

Jack Mercer, Thomas’s younger brother, is everything Caroline was never supposed to want. A disgraced spare. A reformed playboy. Sixteen months sober. Charming, reckless, underestimated, and far too dangerous for a woman who survives by staying cold.

To stop the scandal, Jack offers to take Thomas’s place publicly.

Caroline accepts.

Their marriage begins as damage control: one year, separate rooms, no affairs, no public mistakes, and absolutely no emotional complications. But Ashford Park is full of secrets, Caroline’s father is hiding more than debt, Thomas is not the noble runaway he claims to be, and Jack is not the useless spare everyone believes him to be.

As tabloids feast on their marriage, old photos threaten Jack’s sobriety, financial lies tighten around Caroline’s sister, and a stolen file exposes the rot beneath two powerful dynasties, Caroline and Jack must decide what is more dangerous: trusting each other, or surviving alone.

He was supposed to be the wrong brother.

She was supposed to be his temporary wife.

But the more Caroline sees the man beneath the scandal, the harder it becomes to remember that this marriage was never meant to be real.