Eleanor Hartmere has perfected the art of disappointing suitors with razor-sharp wit and inconvenient intelligence. When society's most persistent bachelor refuses to accept her rejection, preferring his romantic fantasies to her actual character, Eleanor decides that some lessons require more dramatic instruction than mere words. A champagne glass, a public ballroom, and one spectacularly drenched duke's heir later, she faces a choice: accept the safe marriage her scandalized family has hastily arranged, or risk everything for the one man who finally learned to see her clearly.
Some walls are worth climbing. Some futures are worth choosing for yourself.
The origin story of the formidable Duchess whose strategic mind and sharp tongue would later orchestrate the most brilliant social maneuvers in the kingdom.

"The Champagne Rebellion"

by CJ Evans