A Duke by Default (Reluctant Royals #2)

by Alyssa Cole

Love had just kind of eroded out from under them while they weren’t looking, and their marriage had come crashing down with the slightest nudge.

People focused so much on the prince slipping on Cinderella’s lost shoe that they didn’t realize the real happily ever after was the moment she realized she was brave enough to go to the damned ball alone in the first place.

she certainly knew her strengths—it was that she had a way of blowing her failures up like a shield to block anyone from getting at the successes.