Overview

She was told to be less. Instead, she found everything she’d been denied. Emmaline Goode has spent her life swallowing her words, dulling her edges, trying to be the woman her family needs. Then she meets the Duchesse de la Coeur. Amélie is everything Emma has never allowed herself to want—brilliant, untouchable, and dangerously free. One look shatters Emma’s carefully controlled world. One touch ignites something she cannot bury again. What begins in secrecy becomes something far more powerful. But Amélie is not free to choose her own future. Bound to a ruthless past and threatened with a marriage that will destroy her, she stands on the edge of losing everything. And Emma must decide— Remain the woman she’s always been… Or risk scandal, ruin, and everything she loves for a chance at something real. Because some desires refuse to be silenced. And some love is worth setting the world on fire.