In Syrie James’s

newest Dare to Defy novel, a

Lance Granville, the Tenth Duke of Darcy, was none too happy

to give up his career in the Royal Navy to inherit the family title, complete

with an ancient castle he needs to renovate. When an architect

arrives on his doorstep, Darcy is astonished to discover that she’s a woman.

Kathryn Atherton has one goal: to become the first woman

architect in Britain. Marriage doesn’t figure in her plans. Despite the odds,

her schooling is behind her. Now she needs experience. When she’s sent to a

small tidal island in Cornwall to remodel a castle, the last thing Kathryn

wants is to be attracted to its roguishly handsome owner.

Kathryn is determined to keep things professional, but the

sizzling attraction between her and the duke quickly blazes out of control.

When Darcy learns that Kathryn is an heiress whose fortune would save St.

Gabriel’s Mount, he wages the most important battle of his life: to woo and win

the woman who’s captured his heart. But duchesses can’t be architects. And

Kathryn has worked too long and too hard to give up her dreams…