Overview

In Regency London, Eleanor Blackwood leads a dangerous double life as the city's most mysterious masked duelist, fighting to maintain her independence after her father's death left her with nothing but debts and his fencing skills. When the sharp-witted Lady Cassandra Winterbourne discovers her secret, she proposes an unexpected wager: one month of fencing lessons, with the stakes being a single unconditional request if she can disarm Eleanor.

As their blades cross in Eleanor's secluded garden house, so too do their lives in ways neither woman anticipated. With each lesson, the boundaries between teacher and student blur, giving way to an attraction as forbidden as it is undeniable. But when enemies threaten to expose Eleanor's secret, they must choose between the safety of society's constraints and the perilous freedom of following their hearts.

A tale of disguise and revelation, honor and desire, "The Duelist's Rose" follows two women who discover that the most dangerous duels are fought not with steel, but with the heart.