title: An Uncommon Duke (Secret Lives of the Ton)
author:  Laurie Benson 
description: Laurie Benson is an award-winning historical romance author. Her novel An Unexpected Countess was voted Harlequin's 2017 Hero of the Year. She began her writing career as an advertising copywriter, where she learned more than you could ever want to know about hot dogs and credit score reports. When she isn't at her laptop avoiding laundry, Laurie can be found browsing museums or taking ridiculously long hikes with her husband and two sons. For more info go to: lauriebenson.net.
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  The scandal of the season!
  
  For American Katrina Vandenberg, the rules of London society are stifling. So,
  when a rare moment of solitude at a particularly tedious ball is interrupted,
  she’s disappointed...until she lays eyes on a very handsome stranger!
  
  Julian Carlisle, Duke of Lyonsdale, is destined for a dull marriage of
  convenience, and Katrina couldn’t be further from the docile, blue-blooded
  bride he needs. An affair would be scandalous, but could there be a way for
  this highly unsuitable woman to become Julian’s perfect duchess after all?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Secret Lives of the Ton
  
  What Society doesn’t know...
  
  Meet Julian Carlisle, the Duke of Lyonsdale, Gabriel Pearce, the Duke of
  Winterbourne, and Phineas Attwood, the Earl of Hartwick.
  
  In the eyes of the ton, these three gentlemen are handsome, upstanding men who
  (mostly!) play by the rules. But what Society doesn’t know is that, behind
  closed doors, these men are living scandalous li