The Mad, Bad Duke
by Jennifer Ashley

London, 1820
Miss Meagan Tavistock doesn’t believe the talisman her friend purchases from a so-called witch is truly a love spell—that is, until the love spell backfires, catching her in it with the handsome, ruthless Grand Duke Alexander, ambassador to England from the far-off kingdom of Nvengaria.

The last thing Alexander needs is to be swept into a wild love-spelled frenzy with an innocent miss. He has problems of his own—memory losses, strange and terrible dreams, and a shape-shifting logosh called Myn following him around.

Alexander is honorable enough to ensure Meagan is not ruined by their love-spell induced encounter. He thinks to marry her, conquer his seeming madness, and carry on with his task of intimidating King George of England for the good of his beloved Nvengaria.

What he doesn’t figure into the equation is Meagan—a very determined and lovely young woman who seeps into his every thought. Meagan is resolved to have a real marriage and a real family, and to see that Alexander does too. She will ensure Alexander takes up his duties as her husband and father to his nine-year-old son, even if she has to resort to some very Nvengarian intrigue to accomplish it.

Alexander admires her resilience, but the secret he harbors about himself and his past is sure to endanger her and his son, two people he swears to protect and love even at the cost of his own happiness and quite probably his life.

Welcome back to Nvengaria, a land of intense beauty and wild magic, where shape-shifters are real and fairy tales might just come true.

Originally published December 2006 in mass market paperback by Leisure Books.

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From Rakes to Riches
Dukes, Rakes & Rogues, Oh My! Book 1

Murder in the East End
Below Stairs Mystery Book 4

Death in Kew Gardens
Below Stairs Mystery Book 3

Kyle
Riding Hard Book 6

The Devilish Lord Will
Mackenzies & McBrides Series Book 10

'Tis the Season
Regency Yuletide Short Stories

Ross
Riding Hard Book 5

Scandal Above Stairs
A Below Stairs Mystery Book 2

The Mackenzie Chronicles

Tiger Striped
Shifters Unbound Novella Book 11.5

Midnight Wolf
Shifters Unbound Book 11

Death Below Stairs
A Below Stairs Mystery Book 1

Alec Mackenzie's Art of Seduction
Mackenzies & McBrides Series Book 9

Snowbound in Starlight Bend

Cowboy Shots
Butterscotch Martini Shots

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Jennifer Ashley's Bio

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Jennifer Ashley has lived and traveled all over the world, and now lives in the Southwest. She writes historical, paranormal, and contemporary romance as Jennifer Ashley; mysteries as Ashley Gardner; and paranormal romance and urban fantasy as Allyson James.

Jennifer’s/Allyson’s/Ashley’s novels and novellas have won RWA’s RITA award, the Golden Quill, RT Reviewer’s Choice awards, and the Prism award, among others. Jennifer’s novels have been been translated into French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Norwegian, Hungarian, Italian, Thai, Indonesian, Slovene, Portuguese, Russian, and other languages.

Jennifer enjoys writing and reading above all else, but her hobbies include cooking, hiking, playing flute and guitar, painting, and building miniature rooms and dollhouses.