A Duke in Autumn by Arietta Richmond

Lady Eugenia Rutherford is the ‘good girl’ sibling – and now that both her brother and her sister are married and happy, she is beginning to wonder if she will ever fall in love. She had made being proprietously perfect her life’s mission, but now, it is starting to feel dull – and she quietly longs for adventure, but doubts she will ever dare to seize it.

Morris Woodfield, the Duke of Oakthorpe, has always rebelled against the strictures of society – enough to be known as a rogue, but never quite enough to be ostracised. He is in Bath to visit his aunt, and escape the pressures of his title, and his mother’s obsessive attempts to find him a wife, for a while.

When the Duke meets Lady Eugenia, that Autumn in Bath, he initially thinks she is dull – until he realises that there is far more to her than that perfectly presented surface – so he sets out to amuse himself by discovering exactly what hides under it. By the end of their time in Bath, they are both changed, with secrets revealed, and dares given and met, without either ever speaking of the feelings that have grown between them. Will they each leave Bath, and leave love behind, or will they admit their true feelings for each other, before it is too late?