Denying a Rakish Duke by Ava MacAdams

“Stay away from my sister or I shall make you regret it.”

Vanessa Farbridge has witnessed all her sisters marry Dukes. Now overlooked by all suitors for her younger sister’s sake, she accepts the role of her spinster protector. And she has no tolerance for the rake that has his eyes set on her.
A disappointment to his own father, Joseph Atkins, the Duke of Willow, has built quite a reputation. And it is only his desire to create a big family for himself that urges him to seek out a timid wife to bear him children.
His every attempt to approach young Amanda though is met with her insufferable sister’s ire. And it’s no sooner until Vanessa pushes him at his wit’s end and into a marriage of convenience with the shrew herself. Until she disappears out of thin air.