The Duke's Embrace (12 Dukes of Christmas)

A hidden-identities enemies-to-lovers Regency romance, featuring a sharp-eyed lady journalist with a bullmastiff as a chaperone, a rakish blacksmith with two very inconvenient secrets, and a front-page story that could ruin everything.

Unpaid and under-appreciated journalist Miss Eve Shelling never goes anywhere without a trusty notebook and her overprotective Duenna-who happens to be a bullmastiff. Eve learned the hard way that men are not to be trusted. She's definitely not falling head-over-heels for the deceptively charming subject of her front-page column.

Local blacksmith Monsieur Sébastien le Duc is the pillar of his community-when he's not pillaging elsewhere. He's a rakish dandy with a heart of stolen gold and two teeny tiny secrets. One happens to be a wee international smuggling operation. The other involves losing his heart to an ambitious journalist determined to expose the truth at any cost...

Witty and warmhearted with a delicious slow-burn romance, The Duke's Embrace is Regency Christmas romance for readers who love a charming liar slowly undone by a heroine who sees straight through him - and a journalist who discovers the story she wanted was never the one worth writing.