SHE HID HER NAME. SHE COULDN'T HIDE HER HEART. Miss Viola Winslow is a governess. Sensible. Discreet. Nobody in particular. Except that is not her name. And this is not any ordinary house. THE DUKE James Montague, Duke of Huntington, sealed himself away from London society after a scandal he has never explained. His rules are absolute. His solitude is total. His fourteen-year-old daughter is a problem he hasn't solved. Felicity Montague is brilliant, relentless, and deeply tired of watching her brother grieve. When the new governess arrives, Felicity takes one look and begins a campaign. THE SECRET Viola knows exactly who the Duke is. She knows because her family was destroyed by his. Her father's name was taken. Her mother didn't survive it. Viola has spent six years as Miss Winslow - careful, invisible, surviving. She came to Moorcliff Castle knowing what she was walking toward. She did not plan to fall in love with him. She certainly did not plan for him to start moving furniture. SLOW BURN. HIGH STAKES. IMPOSSIBLE ODDS. Every tender moment between them is shadowed by the truth she hasn't told him. Every scene of growing trust is a scene of growing danger. When the Duke's dangerous brother arrives at the castle - and recognises her real name - the countdown begins. Viola has days to decide. Stay and risk everything. Or run, and lose the only place she has ever felt like herself. WHAT READERS WILL LOVE: ✦ A brooding, armoured hero undone by a laugh he wasn't expecting ✦ A heroine who is brave in the quietest, most precise way possible ✦ A teenage matchmaker with excellent instincts and zero shame ✦ Slow-burn tension built from stolen hours in a midnight library ✦ A love story that earns its happy ending - page by page, secret by secret ✦ Grumpy/sunshine - Hidden identity - Forbidden love - Found family She came for the right reasons. She stayed for reasons she hadn't planned on. And when she finally told him the truth - she did it knowing it might cost her everything. The chair is still where she left it. He didn't move it. That was the one he got right. Perfect for fans of slow-burn Regency romance, hidden identity stories, and heroes who show love through action rather than words.