Miss Helen Cosgrove only wants a quiet life, instead she falls for the Duke of Roxboro... or does she?Helen has spent her life invisible. As a lady's companion to the spoiled daughter of a marquess, she exists in the margins of polite society-neither servant nor equal, wanted by no one and belonging nowhere. She asks for nothing more than to survive one final Season, collect her promised wages, and disappear into a quiet life of her own choosing. But when the notorious Duke of Roxboro appears in a darkened alcove at a ball, Helen's carefully ordered world begins to unravel. Fletcher Bean grew up in The Devil's Acre; a place he'll do anything to escape. Resembling a duke, even Roxboro, is profitable. Bracelets, necklaces, earbobs, stickpins... they all find their way into Fletcher's pocket. No one ever questions him or rather,  Roxboro, until he meets a sharp-tongued, perceptive lady's companion and chaperone. The attraction between them is immediate, passionate and doomed from the start. Miss Cosgrove believes Fletcher to be only an unrepentant libertine. A sot. A debauched duke. But the truth is far worse. Anything But a Lord is a story of forbidden attraction, mistaken identity and a dark secret that will finally come to light. London VicesBook 1 - Despite the DukeBook 2 - Anything But a LordBook 3 - Persuading a Gentleman