The Tsar's Untouched Wife: A Steamy Historical Marriage First Time Romance

Serena Wyndham accepts a marriage of convenience to settle her family's debts, entering the Winter Palace as the untouched wife of a commanding ruler whose legitimacy rests on their union. Every order he gives is obeyed the moment he gives it, and that certainty is the security she craves. His buried doubts mirror her own fear of abandonment.

Every corridor brings accidental touches that test their agreed detachment, his hand at her elbow lingering too long as accusations of her impurity threaten to turn their pact into a weapon. She bites her lip against the tension, refusing to name the connection she secretly desires.

How long can they maintain the fiction that this transaction demands nothing more than proximity and signatures?