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The Desperate Duchesses series come to a scintillating end this month with the long awaited story of Leo and its going to be a merry road to the altar. Leopold Dautry, the notorious Duke of Villiers, must wed quickly and nobly and his choices, alas, are few. The Duke of Montague’s daughter, Eleanor, is exquisitely beautiful and fiercely intelligent. Villiers betroths himself to her without further ado.
After all, no other woman really qualifies. Lisette, the outspoken daughter of the Duke of Gilner, cares nothing for clothing or decorum. She’s engaged to another man, and doesn’t give a fig for status or title. Half the ton believes Lisette mad nd Villiers is inclined to agree.
Torn between logic and passion, between intelligence and the imagination, Villiers finds himself drawn to the very edge of impropriety. But it is not until he’s in a duel to the death, fighting for the reputation of the woman he loves, that Villiers finally realizes that the greatest risk may not be in the duelling field but in the bedroom and the heart. $15.95
Excerpt: “You said you’d marry no one but a duke,” her sister repeated stubbornly, “and now there’s one fallen into your hand like a ripe plum. It wouldn’t matter if the duke were as broken down as a cart horse, or so you always said.”
Eleanor opened her mouth and then realized with some horror that the Duke of Villiers was standing just behind her sister’s shoulder.
Who persisted. “Remember dinner last Twelfth Night? You told Aunt Petunia that you’d marry a man who smelled of urine and dog hair if he had the right title, but no one below a duke.”
Eleanor had never met the Duke of Villiers; nay, she had never even seen Villiers, but she had no doubt but that she was facing him now.
Her sister just kept going, with the relentless quality of a bad dream. “You said that you would marry a duke over another man, even if he were as stupid as Oyster, and as fat as Mr. Hendicker’s sow.”
The Duke of Villiers’s eyes were a chilly blackish-grey, the colour of the evening sky when it threatened snow. He didn’t look like a man with a sense of humour.
“Eleanor,” Anne said. “Are you’re listening to me? Aren’t you –“ She turned.
“Oh!”
Meet the Desperate Duchesses in Desperate Duchess, An Affair Before Christmas, Duchess by Night, When the Duke Returns and This Duchess of Mine. |
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