The Blind Duke’s Ward by Claire Devon

“Touch me anywhere,” she whispered, her voice made frantic by her desire. “I want to belong to you.”

Duke Nathan is blind. After the death of his father, his self-loathing pushed him to join the Spanish war. But when he returns sightless, the only true friend he ever had asks him for a favor: find his daughter the perfect suitor. Yet fate has a mysterious, compelling substitute in mind—Gemma…
Lady Gemma is fleeing from her cunning cousins. In fear of her life, she seeks refuge in a mysterious Castle where she is forced to temporarily adopt the identity of an expected ward. Worse, she finds herself falling for the castle’s enigmatic master…
Her formal relationship with the Duke quickly turns into a clandestine affair filled with erotic tension…
And as the lines between reality and pretense blur, she risks a dangerous love that could have consequences far beyond her heart…

Each book in the Dukes Ever After series is a standalone story of 60,000 words that can be enjoyed out of order.