_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

"Where the hell have you been?!" Was what greeted Rhea as she stepped into her room. She startled violently, hand pressed to her beating heart, and then relaxed when she saw it was just her Ladies-in-Waiting.

"I was with the Grand Duke in his bedroom," she answered simply with her head down, trying to make an escape to the bathroom.

But Apollonia was never one to quit.

"This early? What were you doing there?" The blonde demanded as she grabbed Rhea by the shoulder and forced her to face her.

"I have been there since last night," she answered, feeling the childish shame of admitting to doing things with a boy, grip her.

But it was not needed as Apollonia's keen eyes narrowed at the marks littering her neck and the bruised plumpness of Rhea's usually soft pink lips.

Realisation clicked with a widening of green eyes that stared at her with betrayal.

"You did not… I… How could you?!"

Confrontation With a Twist