The Grand Duke needs an heir. Sabian needs a way out. Love isn't part of the bargain, but another woman is.

Ten years after her father gambled away their title, Sabian Brighton scrubs other people's hearths and waits to marry a merchant's son she doesn't love. She knows better than to expect a fairy tale.

Then, at the Grand Duke's ball, she throws a man into the hedges with a power she didn't know she had, and catches the eye of the most dangerous man in Mondoria.

Grand Duke Ambrose makes her an offer. Marry him. Give him an heir. In return, he will restore her family's title, fortune, and future.

But after giving his entire life to the King's wars, the Duke lives by his own rules now. He has a mistress, he has appetites, and he expects to be obeyed.

It sounds simple enough.

It isn't.

Sharing a husband is very different in practice than in theory. Soon her jealousy gives way to questions she never expected to ask, desires she never knew she had, and a connection with another woman she never saw coming.

Sabian thought she knew what she was agreeing to. She was wrong about the Duke, wrong about his mistress, and most dangerously of all, wrong about herself.

A spicy standalone romantasy novella with forced proximity, a love triangle, delicious dom/sub dynamics, and a heroine who expected a marriage of convenience, not a lesson in surrender.

Content warnings: open door, 18+. Voyeurism, MFF, choking/breath play, infidelity, and violence.