Available for the first time digitally, this sizzling short story from New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries features the dashing Doctor Worth, who appeared in What the Duke Desires from âThe Dukeâs Menâ Regency romance series.
Dr. Percy Worth finds young widow Dorinda Nunley ravishing every time he sees her at her cousinsâ, the Duke and Duchess of Lyons. But he figures that a society hothouse flower would make a terrible doctorâs wife. Still, when she lets herself into his residence one morning to find him half-dressed, heâs as fascinated as he is surprised by the intrusion.
Though Dorindaâs angry when she realizes theyâre victims of the duchessâs matchmaking, Percy suggests that they teach the duchess a lesson by pretending to court, then break off spectacularly at the dukeâs dinner that night. But after a day togetherâand a very hot tumble in bedâthey realize they suit each other far better than they ever dreamed. So do they go forward with their plan? Or embrace the pretense that has become all too real?