A Duke Will Never Do
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4.4 • 32 Ratings
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
From the USA Today bestselling author of The Untouchables series comes your next Regency obsession: The Spitfire Society... Meet the smart, independent women who’ve decided they don’t need Society’s rules, their families’ expectations, or, most importantly, a husband. But just because they don’t need a man doesn’t mean they might not want one.
After failing on the Marriage Mart, Jane Pemberton has two choices: submit to her parents’ edict to marry their boring neighbor or become a self-declared spinster and take up residence in the official headquarters of the Spitfire Society. It’s really no choice at all, and Jane is eager to embrace her newfound independence. She soon finds an unconscious viscount on her doorstep and nurses him back to health. When he offers to compensate her, she requests payment in the form of private instruction of a scandalous and intimate kind.
Having spiraled into a self-destructive abyss following the murder of his parents, Anthony, Viscount Colton, physically recovers under the care of an alluring spitfire. But it is her charm and flirtatiousness that soothes his soul and arouses his desire—until an extortion scheme forces him to face the sins of his past. Now, to save the woman who’s given him everything he lost and more, he’ll have to pay the ultimate price: his heart.
Customer Reviews
Funny, flirty, flawed hero
The story get straight to the point with the discovery of an unconscious man on the front doorstep within the first few pages. This sets the pace for the rest of the story where events roll from one to another.
Anthony, Lord Colton, is wracked with guilt over his parents deaths and his own connection to that. He still hasn’t done anything about his guilt or grief, unless drinking to excess counts. He is found on Jane’s doorstep one morning. Jane’s patience and good nature bring Anthony back from the brink and shows him an alternative future.
Anthony offers Jane a favour for her helping him to recover. She denies the need at first, until she decides that he could help her intimately. The conversation between Miss Pemberton and Lord Colton about what she could expect to happen if her proposition came to bare was frank and amusing, as each of them was slightly embarrassed and enthralled at the same time. The two of them engage in many conversations which allow them to dally in innuendo and flirtation.
Anthony doesn’t think he is good enough for Jane and tries to stay away from her. Jane has other ideas. She has he most patience I’ve come across in a character for a while. She continues to offer help even when he is falling back into bad habits.
The dialogue between these two is wonderfully real. Humour, sarcasm, factual exchanges and sincerity are all included.
I was a little disappointed that the mystery of his landing on her doorstep wasn’t explored. I did, however, really enjoy this story despite this. I do hope that the Spitfire Society gets a greater portion of the next book. It seemed to be very much in the background in this book.