_Balinor_

Lady Rhea Montgomery, Countess of Riverian has the perfect life.
A wonderful, powerful husband who rules his county with dignity and honour. Enough wealth to keep her dressed in the finest of silks and decked in jewels to enhance her radiant beauty. And people who love her as their beloved Countess.
Life is perfect, until suddenly it isn't and Rhea loses everything to a woman younger and more capable.
Becoming no one after being someone is almost too much to bear and just when Rhea resigns herself to her fate, along comes Lord Augustus Holloway, Duke of Ravenholm.
Everything she has heard about the powerful and dangerous man says to stay away but his sweet fondness for her says otherwise.
Augustus seduces Rhea into his frightening yet exciting world and leaves her questioning whether she could be someone without Lanon, and if her connection to him is worth the chaos it brings into her once peaceful life.
Rhea had once been a merchant's daughter and then a Countess. If she played the game right, and she damn well will, she could become a Duchess or maybe even Queen.

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Note: There is some confusion because of the language I use and the setting but please be aware that THIS IS NOT A HISTORICAL NOVEL.
It's a mix between 19th/20th century society and values and modern day technological advances.
Please keep that in mind so you don't go in with expectations that will not be met.
If you're cool with that, go right ahead and enjoy.

Lord Holloway's Adored Lady: Climbing The Ranks After Divorce

"…the King has decided that it is time I settled down with the Lady he has chosen and make myself an heir."

Seconds of stunned silence ticked by after his declaration as Rhea carefully dissected his words.

"Heavens, no! Do I look mad?" He asked with a bark of amused laughter.

Rhea on the other hand could not see what was so amusing about the situation to him. The King had given him a command, a very monumental one at that, and he was acting as if it was a mere suggestion he planned to ignore.

For him it was just marriage, an inevitability for a Lord, but for her, she might as well legally change her name to 'Mistress' because that was all history would remember her as.

Rhea was many things, but a homewrecker was not one of them. She could never do to any woman what Alice had done to her and if it came down to it the only option was to leave Augustus.

Just A Man And His Woman