The Duke of the Tropics

By: Shari Malin

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

She was the diamond of the London season. He was the exile the world forgot.

Lady Clara St. James has everything a society beauty could want: impeccable breeding, a throng of admirers, and a terrifying secret. To save her family from financial ruin, she has been sold into a proxy marriage to a man she has never met—a disgraced second son banished to the wilds of Jamaica. Clara expects a monster. Instead, she finds a man who has traded his cravats for linen shirts and his manners for a machete.

Sebastian Thorne has spent ten years building an empire of sugar and spice to forget the scandal that drove him from England. He needs a wife to secure his land, not a partner to share his life. When Clara arrives—fragile, terrified of insects, and obsessed with etiquette—he dismisses her as a useless ornament. He is determined to send her back to London the moment he produces an heir.

But Clara is not the porcelain doll Sebastian assumes her to be. When a hurricane slams into the island, trapping them in the savage beauty of the cane fields, the walls between them shatter. Amidst the wind and rain, Clara proves she has a spine of steel and a healing touch that soothes more than just physical wounds.

Just as passion ignites, the past sails into the harbor. A jealous neighbor, an obsessed suitor, and a letter bearing news that will change Sebastian’s title forever threaten to tear them apart. Now, the man who thought he was unlovable must decide if he is brave enough to let the woman who saved him stay, or noble enough to let her go.