From USA Today bestselling author Scarlett Scott comes a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers Christmas historical romance between a frigid duke and the sharp-tongued romantic he falls hard for, with plenty of banter and holiday spice . . .

When Archibald 'Arch' Holford, the icy and arrogant Duke of Winterbury, pays a call on his estranged mother for the first time in years, it's not to celebrate Christmas. Rather, it's to announce his impending nuptials to the lady of his father's choosing.

He didn't account for Miss Jane Shawcross, a thoroughly protective and deliciously maddening spinster with a penchant for talking to herself. Arch thinks she's mad. Jane thinks he's a heartless wretch. They hate each other at first sight. Until . . . they don't.

As snow settles in and Christmas nears, Arch is shocked to discover he's been living a lie. Even more startling is the realization that the one woman he wants in his arms and in his bed isn't his betrothed at all, but the tempting companion he's been trying his utmost to sack.

Jane knows Winterbury is beyond her reach and there's no future in his kisses. Still, that doesn't stop her from losing her heart to the handsome duke. But when she discovers the truth, Arch must prove he is worthy of her trust, or it won't be Christmas he'll be forgetting. It will be the woman he loves.