She loved him in silence for seven years.
He never saw her as more than “little Marlowe.”
Lady Isolde Marlowe has endured three Seasons and dozens of proposals. None touched her. Her heart has belonged to one man since she was seventeen: Julian Ashcombe, Duke of Ravenhurst—her brother’s closest friend, the man who teases, partners, and keeps her carefully at arm’s length.
When a steady suitor offers safety, Isolde prepares to choose sense over longing. Then one winter waltz changes everything. Julian’s quiet confession cracks the distance between them. Glances linger. Restraint fractures. And locked inside her writing desk wait seven years of unsent letters.
But a calculating rival will not surrender the title she covets. Forged letters. Manufactured scandal. A carefully laid trap designed to destroy Isolde and claim the duke for good.
Isolde refuses to break.
She will expose every lie.
She will risk everything.
Some hearts do not thaw gently.
Some silences end in fire.
The Frozen Duke’s Heart is waiting.
Turn the first page—and do not look away.