When a Duke Loves a Governess
Unlikely Duchesses
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Publisher Description
A stunning new Regency from beloved author Olivia Drake, When a Duke Loves a Governess...!
Tessa James has worked and planned tirelessly to open her own millinery shop. All she needs now is a loan from the lord who sired and abandoned her. The only problem is, she doesn’t even know his name. What’s a woman to do to find him but enter the aristocratic world by becoming a governess?
Guy Whitby, the new Duke of Carlin, has returned to London after years abroad to discover that his young daughter Sophy has become a wild-child known for scaring away every governess who's crossed his doorstep. When Tessa James applies for the job, he hires her in desperation despite his misgivings that she’s too bold and beautiful–and that she might be fibbing about her qualifications.
Their blooming attraction leads them on a completely unexpected path to love that neither wants to deny. But when an old enemy threatens Guy's family, their forbidden romance goes up in flames. Can they still learn to love and trust each other as forces try to tear them apart?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A woman gets more than she bargained for when she fudges her qualifications to become a governess in Drake's tantalizing third Unlikely Duchesses Regency romance (after Forever My Duke). Milliner Tessa James is determined to track down her aristocratic father, who got her mother pregnant while she was in his employ and then left her to raise Tessa in poverty. When she learns that Guy Whitby, the seventh Duke of Carlin, is having trouble keeping a governess for his unruly daughter, Sophy, Tessa finagles her way into the job, hoping to use the position to gain access to her father's social circles. Guy is skeptical of Tessa's qualifications, but he's also desperate, and Sophy's misbehavior is just one of his concerns. Guy unexpectedly gained the title of duke after four family members died within five years of each other. When he's shot and his home is burglarized, he begins to think his aunt may be right about the family being cursed. As Tessa searches for her father, strengthens the bond between Guy and Sophy, and helps Guy to sniff out the burglar and would-be killer, the pair struggle to ignore their growing desires. With suspects and motives aplenty and the heat steadily rising between the alluring pair, this proves impossible to put down.
Customer Reviews
Loved the Heroine!
I received an ARC of this book to read through NetGalley. All opinions are my own. When A Duke Loves a Governess by Olivia Drake is the third book in her Unlikely Duchesses series.
It can be read as a stand-alone. When milliner's assistant Tessa James realizes that she’s never going to earn enough for her own shop where she is working now, she decides to create her own opportunities, and after an overheard conversation at the shop, applies to be the governess for Lady Sophie, the four-year-old daughter of the Duke of Carlin who can’t seem to hold on to a governess for his ungovernable daughter. Guy Whitby, Duke of Carlin, is at his wit's end, leaving his daughter in charge of her maternal grandparents while he travelled the world seeking botanical specimens means that she doesn’t know or like him, and her tantrums may cost him more staff than just the governesses. I enjoyed this story very much; both the duke and the governess are trying to fit into roles that are new to them. There’s a pirates’ treasure map, the Carlin Curse, several mysteries and a nasty villain to keep you wondering what will happen next. Steam Level: Medium. Publishing Date: July 27, 2021. #WhenADukeLovesAGoverness #OliviaDrake #NetGalley #HistoricalRomance #HistoricalRomance Series #RomanceReader #historicalromancereader #StMartinsPress #StMartinsPaperbacks #bookstagram #bookstagrammer