The Dukes Mad Wife

Ashley Parrying is an inventor. An exploding carriage, three small-scale working train models, and one very jumpy staff could attest to this. Her debut season in the London high society scene, was rather pointedly ruined by her refusing to wear proper shoes, (she in fact, wore no shoes at all, and was only found out after walking through the sandy area in Baroness Marlow's Garden.) She tormented young suitors with suggestively poor French, never wore her lacey flowered hats, and added homemade moonshine to the punch during the largest picnic of the year.
A husband of convenience, Terrance McCoy plays with the social scene out of boredom and Mad Ashley Parrying is one way to leave the high society world on fire as he fades into his own comfortable retirement. An unexpected Dukedom turns their sham of a marriage upside down and sparks the attraction that builds slowly into a lifelong love.