Forced to Marry My Ruined Ex: The Duke's Revenge

When the old Duke dies suddenly, his grasping brother Richard seizes the title and the family fortune. Cordelia, the late Duke's only child, loses her noble standing and is blinded in secret. To shield her commoner sweetheart Luke, she cruelly ends their romance and sends him off. Believing she picked status over him, Luke rides to the frontier, burning with resentment. Years later he reappears as Luciano Thorne, a renowned war hero who is now the Duke. Cordelia, meanwhile, is stuck at home, struggling to keep what remains of her inheritance. When her uncle pushes the blind Cordelia into marriage with a seventy-year-old merchant, Luciano shows up with a huge dowry to claim her himself. He means to punish her for the betrayal, yet the sight of her scars and suffering turns his anger into fixation. As revenge and desire tangle, the truth comes out. In the end, the dreaded war god kneels only before her, returns her sight, and places the ducal crown on the one woman he has always adored.