The Duke's Puppet

Cecilia is admired across the city as a devoted, almost saintly figure, yet beneath her spotless image she harbors hungry, forbidden desires she keeps carefully hidden. Her fiancé is a deeply pious man whose faith is central to his life, and Cecilia begins to test his composure in ways that could unsettle the perfect future they were meant to share. The story sets up a tense battle between the public purity she performs and the secret longings that threaten to surface.