Dorothea Fitzroy had long accepted her place in the world—quiet, unseen, safely tucked in the corners of other people’s lives.
Until Julian Ravensley, the indolent yet disarmingly earnest son of a marquess, asked her to help him find a wife… and then proceeded to choose no one but her.
When he unveiled the portrait he painted in secret, Dorothea realized the truth she had fled for years:
