A third of the way through, the book started getting interesting. So much over-telling and explaining in the narrative and through internal thoughts. Story through internal thoughts and over-telling And when Max realizes how beautiful and intelligent and desirable Bianca is, he’ll have to prove he’s no rogue, but the passionately devoted husband she craves.
Married or not, Bianca is determined to protect her family’s prosperous ceramics business, even when Max shows an affinity for it - not to mention a dangerous ability to intrigue and tempt Bianca herself. But an unexpected stroke of luck gives him an outside chance at a dukedom - and which Tate sister he weds hardly seems to matter. Perched on the lowest branch of his family tree, Max has relied on charm and cunning to survive. Defiantly, she helps Cathy elope with her true love and takes her sister’s place at the altar. But as his memory returns and the truth is revealed, Rob must decide if the game is up - or if he’ll take a chance on a love that defies all odds.The first book in the new series Desperately Seeking Duke from USA Today best-selling and RITA award-winning author Caroline Linden.īianca Tate is horrified when her sister, Cathy, is obliged to accept an offer of marriage from Maximilian St. Though he can’t remember how he won her hand, he’s now determined to win her heart. The bewitching beauty tending him so devotedly calls him Rob and claims she’s his fiancée even as she avoids his touch.
He wakes up with no memory of being assaulted - or of who he is. The man who wakes up, though, is nothing like the heartless rogue Georgiana thought she knew. She’ll nurse the hateful man back to health and make him vow to leave and never return. Fearing that Kitty would rather see him die, Georgiana blurts out that he’s her fiancé.
Still, Georgiana assures Kitty the marquess wouldn’t possibly come all the way to Derbyshire to throw them out - until he shows up, bloody and unconscious. Georgiana Lucas despises the arrogant and cruel Marquess of Westmorland even before learning that he’s won the deed to her friend Kitty’s home in a card game.
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