My Dearest Duke
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The bright society of Regency England will sweep you away…if you let it…
Lord Rowles Haywind has always shied away from the spotlight of the dukedom, worried it would bring too much attention to the family secret. Now that he is the new Duke, he needs help navigating glittering society, but he’s not sure he can trust anyone. Until he reconnects with Lady Joan Morgan…
Lady Joan has a secret of her own that would stir up a terrible scandal. She longs to tell Rowles the truth about her work, but she’s afraid his disapproval would ruin the connection that’s blossoming between them. But the longer she waits to tell him, the worse the outcome could be for them both once the truth is out…
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A duke falls for a spy in Vayden's aimless second Cambridge Brotherhood Regency romance (after Fortune Favors the Duke). Though Lady Joan Morgan's job in the War Office would seem to promise danger, intrigue, and espionage, readers should expect no such excitement in these pages; Joan mostly reviews documents. In comparing herself to her fellow debutantes she declares, "I'm not simpering, limpid, and boring," which—apart from being an unsubstantiated claim—will grate on readers who are tired of heroines that must be unlike other women to be worthy. Joan enjoys intellectual banter with Rowles Haywind, Duke of Westmore, at a ball and the pair quickly develop an affection for each other. But Joan fears a husband would force her to leave her profession and Rowles worries that his addled mother, whose "mind fractured into shards" and who favors her dead son while treating Rowles with contempt, will curtail his future wife's happiness. A tangled mix of unnecessary details and abruptly aborted subplots—including one about a mole in the magistrate's office—only muddy the waters of this unconvincing romance. Declarations of devotion alone do not chemistry make, and readers will struggle to feel the emotion between this spark-less couple. This is one to skip.
