title: The Duke of a Thousand Desires
author: Hunter, Jillian
description: ONCE UPON A TIME …
  
  Simon Caverley, the Duke of Rochecliffe, was Lady Ravenna Boscastle's best friend. Now, years later at a Mayfair party he becomes her heart's nemesis, enigmatic, sophisticated, and dangerous. He is the one man in London she has been warned to avoid… the eligible duke countless women hope to capture.
  
  Ravenna has no intention of falling for his dark charisma. She's too busy plotting to break her engagement to the fiancé who has betrayed her. All goes according to plan -- until Simon blithely walks into a deadly trap instead of a rendezvous and she is compelled to save the irresistible scoundrel's life.
  
  Caught with Simon in a shocking position, Ravenna must choose between banishment or betrothal to the scandalous duke. Marrying Ravenna is no sacrifice for Simon. She's the only lady he has ever truly desired -- or been denied. Wed in haste, they soon find their friendship deepening into a passionate alliance.
  
  Still, a happy ending eludes the lovers until the duke confesses his most intimate secrets to his wife and confronts the enemy who has schemed to destroy him.
  
  ======Alternate Blurb======
  
  The duke wants only one woman for his bride …
  
  From the moment that the Duke of Rochecliffe understood the meaning of desire, he assumed that Lady Ravenna Boscastle would be his wife. After all, she and her brothers had been Simon's best friends for practically forever. He never dreamed that the rogues would decide he was too indecent to wed their sister.
  
  Several years pass before he and Ravenna meet at a London ball. As scandal-prone as her notorious relatives, Ravenna is busy breaking off her engagement to another man when Simon inconveniently needs her to save his life.
  
  Caught with the duke in a shocking encounter, Ravenna remembers she's been warned that the boy who was once her best friend has grown up to be a naughty gentleman indeed. To stifle gossip, Ravenna agrees to marry the charismatic devil, knowing she will spend the rest of her life discovering how wicked Simon has become …