George, Duke of Northumberland, has spent five years learning to trust the impossible: that a duke can marry an American cowboy and still keep four hundred years of family legacy intact. This Christmas, that trust gets tested in front of everyone who matters—including, if the invitation is accepted, the king himself.
Alan Justice never wanted a dukedom. He wanted George. Five years in, he’s built barns, mended fences, and made a life in a house that still doesn’t quite feel like his—and tonight, in a borrowed tuxedo and his own cowboy boots, he has to convince an entire ballroom that he belongs there, with George’s mother determined to prove the opposite in front of everyone who matters.
Between a runaway stallion, an unplanned litter of puppies, and a house suddenly full of relatives from two very different worlds, George and Alan are about to find out whether the life they’ve already built can survive being seen—by everyone, all at once, on the one night it matters most.