The Duke in My Bed
Amelia Grey
St. Martin’s Paperbacks, Dec 30 2014,
$7.99
ISBN 9781250042200
In 1815 Hyde Park, intoxicated Heir Club members Marquis
Drakestone and Viscount Wayebury race their curricles when an accident leaves
the latter dying. Wayebury tells
Drakestone he fears for his sisters as his uncle will inherit the title and
ignore his nieces. In front of several
lords, the dying man gets the Marquis to make a death bed pledge of marrying
his sibling Louisa and to take care of his dog Saint.
Two years later, Bray still has not wed Louisa nor plans to do
so. However, she has made his life
hellish by refusing any other suitor. At
the same time the Ton keeps asking him when he will wed her. Her uncle forces the issue so Bray finally
goes to meet his “fiancée” and her spoiled sisters. Bray and Louisa are attracted to each other
from the onset but he struggles with her pain in the butt siblings and she has
nor forgiven him for failing to keep his vow.
Wages including one between them occur over the couple’s relationship
and pressure mounts until they agree to a marriage of convenience that fails to
consider love.
The first Heirs’ Club Regency is an amusing historical starring
two amiable leads battling whether to marry or not to marry and who
proposes. Although the sisters come
across as nudniks, subgenre fans will
agree this is a sure bet romance.
Harriet Klausner
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