The Ice Around My Heart

A young ordinary girl falls for a rich, handsome duke. If this were an ordinary love story, she would have been his bride. Instead, she becomes his mistress. In taking the eighteen-year-old Mary Ashton with him to London, Rathe Wellesley, the 5th Duke of Flanders and England’s #1 Heartthrob, knows that his most cherished woman would become the talk of the town for all the wrong reasons. Even so, Rathe is unable to keep himself away from her. Mary used to think she had the power to change the duke’s outlook on love. But when someone starts spreading lies about her, making Rathe and the whole world believe that she’s too young for him.When she looks into Rathe’s eyes now, she fears that no matter what she does, the duke will ultimately choose…to leave her.