Forever My Duke
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Olivia Drake returns to her delightful new Regency romance series featuring rakish dukes and the governesses who steal their hearts
"I find Miss Fanshawe to be quite charming―for an American."―The Prince Regent
Hadrian Ames, the Duke of Clayton, needs a bride. He's even picked out the perfect one. That is, until he meets the lovely, free-spirited Natalie Fanshawe. She's the exact opposite of what a man in his position needs—or should want—in a wife: an utterly delightful, outspoken American who has never even set foot in a London ballroom.
But Natalie doesn't have time to be swept off her feet by a handsome duke she's convinced is a scoundrel like every other British lord. As for his title, it's not as if he actually worked to attain his wealth and status. He surely can't understand what it's like to be a busy woman, planning to open a school while trying to reunite a six-year-old orphan with his English relatives.
But Hadrian is about to surprise Natalie, and himself, as he sets out to prove that this duke is worthy of a governess!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The fluffy second regency romance in Drake's Unlikely Duchesses series (after The Duke I Once Knew) features a refreshing heroine but a lackluster hero. Feisty American school teacher Natalie Fanshawe abhors the foibles of the British aristocracy. But when her best friend dies, Natalie must travel to England to fulfill her deathbed promise to deliver newly orphaned six-year-old Leo into the arms of his grandfather, a peer of the realm. Once in England, an ice storm strands Natalie and Leo in the same inn as Hadrian Ames, the haughty Duke of Clayton. Though Hadrian is on his way to propose to another woman and Natalie is considered an old maid at 26, sparks fly between them from their first meeting. Natalie's disdainful, outsider's view of the peerage adds a new complication to typical regency tropes, but Hadrian is painted with broad strokes that will keep readers from fully embracing him as a love interest. Still, this light outing is sure to keep returning readers invested in the series.
