{"id":33470,"date":"2024-03-27T13:10:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T13:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariahstone.com\/?post_type=books&#038;p=33470"},"modified":"2024-12-17T15:22:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T15:22:53","slug":"duke-of-rath","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/mariahstone.com\/fr\/books\/duke-of-rath\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke of Rath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Beauty tames the beast when a marriage of convenience becomes anything but convenient for a duke with dark secrets.<\/strong><br><br>Haunted by a dark secret, Dorian, the Duke of Rath, is consumed by wrath and guilt. The powerful lord will endure any torture to atone for his sins, even marry a perfect stranger\u2014his victim\u2019s little sister\u2014to save her family from ruin.<br><br>He vows not to touch her and to protect the innocent girl from his depraved sensual pleasures. But she must stay for one year and follow his strict rules.<br><br>When botanist Miss Patience Rose walks down the aisle in her simple dress, with garden soil permanently embedded under her short nails, she lets a little sunlight into Rath\u2019s blackened heart.<br><br>Young, innocent Patience drives her older husband mad with her cheery chatter and her irresistible curves<br><br>She\u2019s breaking every one of his rules.<br><br>He punishes her&#8230;and she likes it.<br><br>Love is healing Rath\u2019s soul and transforming his bleak, imposing mansion into a warm home.<br><br>There\u2019s just one thing keeping them apart\u2014the ghastly secret that could send him to the gallows. And Patience is putting her brilliant mind to work to uncover it.<br><br>Other volumes of the &#8216;Seven Dukes of Sin&#8217; series:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 &#8211; Duke of Rath<br>2 &#8211; Duke of Luhst<br>3 &#8211; Duke of Pryde<br>&#8230;<br>More books to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":35080,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false},"series":[35938],"trope":[35939,35940,35942,35944],"genre":[35926],"audiobooks":[35930],"class_list":["post-33470","books","type-books","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","series-sevendukes","trope-enemies-to-lovers","trope-steamy-romance","trope-found-family","trope-wounded-hero","genre-regency-historical-romance","audiobooks-audiobook"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariahstone.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/33470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariahstone.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariahstone.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariahstone.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariahstone.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariahstone.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=33470"},{"taxonomy":"trope","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariahstone.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trope?post=33470"},{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariahstone.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=33470"},{"taxonomy":"audiobooks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariahstone.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audiobooks?post=33470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}