A Brilliant Defiance (Courting the Unconventional Book 6)

She is the most infuriating woman he has ever met—and the only one who has ever made him question everything he believes.

Lady Eliza Ashford refuses to be managed, silenced, or married off to satisfy society's rigid expectations. Armed with a razor-sharp mind and an even sharper tongue, she has spent years outmaneuvering every man who dares underestimate her. Lord Nicholas Hartwell is no different—or so she tells herself.

Nicholas has built his reputation on order, logic, and control. He needs a compliant match. What he gets is Eliza: brilliant, reckless, and utterly determined to ruin every careful plan he makes. Their battles are legendary before they even begin.

But when circumstances force them into an uneasy alliance, something shifts beneath all that magnificent hostility. Every argument crackles with a tension neither can name. Every stolen glance lasts a heartbeat too long. Nicholas begins to suspect that Eliza's defiance isn't stubbornness—it's survival. And Eliza starts to wonder whether the man she's fought so fiercely might be the only one who truly sees her.

She has defied a whole society. Can she dare to defy her own heart?

*A Brilliant Defiance* is a witty, emotionally rich Regency romance about two stubborn souls who discover that the greatest