The Duchess in His Bed
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4.1 • 16 Ratings
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Publisher Description
For a duchess with practical desires, falling in love is an inconceivable part of her plan…
As owner of the Elysium Club which caters to women’s fantasies, Aiden Trewlove is accustomed to introducing adventurous ladies to sin and vice. But he is uncharacteristically intrigued by the mysterious beauty who visits his club one night, yearning to indulge in the forbidden—with him. Drawn to her indomitable spirit, he breaks his rule of never becoming personally involved with his clientele and is determined to fully awaken her desires.
A recent widow, Selena Sheffield, Duchess of Lushing, has never known passion, not until Aiden’s slow, sensual seduction leads her on a journey of discovery and incredible pleasure. But her reasons for visiting the notorious club are not all that they seem.
As Selena’s motives become complicated by love, she finds herself with a most unexpected choice: forge ahead with a secret plan that could secure her future—or follow her heart which could prove ruinous.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Unfortunately, Heath's Victorian-era follow-up to the riveting The Scoundrel in Her Bed has a slow, formulaic plot. The recently widowed Selena Sheffield, Duchess of Lushing, is in dire straits because the duke's vast properties will revert to the Crown unless she can produce a son with sufficient rapidity to claim that her husband fathered the child. Hoping to get pregnant in a hurry, she visits Aiden Trewlove's private London club for noblewomen, seeking the owner himself. Aiden and his siblings, all illegitimate, were tossed away by their noble father and raised in poor conditions. But unlike his siblings, he has no desire to marry back into the aristocracy, striving for business success instead. Beautiful Selena tempts him, as his secretly produced son could be a future duke. In previous Sins for All Seasons novels, Heath brought together couples who were already acquainted; perhaps this entry seems colder because Aiden and Selena are essentially strangers and get to know each other slowly and without real chemistry. Even series fans will find this a disappointment.
Customer Reviews
Sensual and Sexy
I received an ARC of this book to read through Edelweiss+ in exchange for a fair review. The Duchess in His Bed is the 4th book in Lorraine Heath’s Sins for All Seasons Series. It can be read as a stand-alone but it’s an excellent series and I highly recommend all of the books in the series. I have to confess that at first, I struggled with this book, I didn’t trust the author to do right by the hero and that was a big mistake, Lorraine Heath had never let me down before and she does not do so in this book. Selena Sheffield, the recently widowed Duchess of Lushing has a problem. If she is not carrying the late duke’s heir the title will become extinct, with no heir the lands and monies will revert to the crown leaving Selena with only her dower house and a small annuity not enough to enough to ensure that her sisters will be able to make respectable marriages. Aiden Trewlove owner of the Elysium Club finds himself fascinated by the beautiful, mysterious masked woman who shows up at his club one night looking to be bedded, but as the bastard son of an earl he can never seek to move in her circles and the passion that grows between them cannot bring lasting happiness. How these two are able to find their way to HEA despite the odds stacked against it makes for a very enjoyable read and I do recommend this story highly. Medium Steam. Publishing Date August 20, 2019 #Edelweissplus #TheDuchessInHisBed #LorraineHeath #AvonBooks #AvonRomance #HarperCollinsCanada #HarperCollinsPublishers #HistoricalRomance #Bookstagram