My brother sent me to a country chapel to pray for my engagement, then left me drugged and injured in a room with a seventy-six-year-old duke. By morning, he had a story ready: I had betrayed my fiancé, and my adopted sister was the woman who deserved to take my place. I returned to the capital with no intention of keeping quiet, even if telling the truth meant losing my title, my home, and the last family I had trusted. The court wanted a clean scandal, my brother wanted control of the family trust, and the duke expected his name to shield him. But the choice I made for my brother was stranger than any punishment he had planned. What would he do when the eighty-two-year-old Duchess of Veyne offered him exactly what he wanted?