num_pages: 172
description: Tricking the wrong man into an arranged marriage isnt the smartest thing Ive ever done.My name is Colby Witherington. Its 2023 but I still live in a world of lords &amp; ladies balls &amp; arranged marriages. Its all very regency except men marry men &amp; magic is involved.Desperate times called for desperate measures. Im twenty-one and still unwed. Vessels are always married to a mage on their eighteenth birthday. Its tradition. One I want to take part in. I long to surrender my body and my magic to a mage.But when I was seventeen my first fiance got himself killed in a car crash days before our wedding. Leaving me in this mess.Ive tried everything and its been years.So tricking the lovely Duke Rakewell into a compromising situation at a ball is my last option.But its Duke Sothbridge who falls into my trap and is forced to propose to me.Evil cruel Duke Southbridge who ravished Lord Garringtons Vessel on a balcony and fought a duel over it.Him. Im engaged in an arranged marriage to him.What on earth am I going to do?Duke Sothbridge's Vessel contains arranged marriage first times grumpy/sunshine angst intimacy based magic and a regency inspired alternate world.
language: English
title: Duke Sothbridge's Vessel
publisher: Dark Angst Publishing