What if the life you were born into was never the life you were destined to live?Eighteen-year-old Celeste has spent her entire life within the walls of Exeter House, a workhouse that is the only home and family she has ever known. Abandoned as a baby, she has grown up surrounded by people who care for her, yet she cannot help dreaming of something more—a life filled with love, purpose, family, and freedom.Everything changes when Celeste is unexpectedly chosen to leave Exeter House and enter the imposing world of Elstree, home of a powerful young duke. Torn away from everything familiar, she finds herself in a world of wealth, privilege, strict expectations, and secrets. But the Duke of Elstree is not at all the man Celeste expects, and the connection developing between them soon becomes impossible to ignore.As attraction turns into forbidden love, Celeste must navigate the enormous divide between their worlds while uncovering truths about her identity, her past, and the family she never knew. Friendship, passion, heartbreak, sacrifice, and unexpected revelations challenge everything she once believed about herself and the future she thought was possible.When Love Aligns With Destiny is an emotional historical romance about an orphan searching for where she truly belongs, a privileged duke bound by expectation, and a love powerful enough to challenge class, duty, and circumstance. Filled with passion, family secrets, sacrifice, second chances, and the irresistible pull of destiny, it is a sweeping story about discovering that sometimes the person who changes your life is the person you were always meant to find. Read more