The Dastardly Duke
About this audiobook
Tormented by a dark secret, Julian LeFevre, Duke of Claridge, is a notorious and dissolute rake. His half-hearted attempt to reform his character has left him bored to death. To relieve the tedium, he wagers a friend that he can mold any pretty trollop from the London streets into a lady who'll pass muster with society's elite.
But Hannah Gregory is no biddable lump of clay. She has solemn gray eyes, a rebellious streak-and is deaf from a long-ago accident. And although she conceals her real past, she can't conceal her attraction to the scoundrel who offers her a small fortune that could pay for a new medical treatment.
The charade might heal her, but it also might break her heart-if she forgets that this dark and dangerous duke is well past the point of redemption.
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About the author
I'm a Regency buff. That's the period in England between 1811 and 1820, when Mad George was on the throne (George III, of "Hamilton" and "Bridgerton" fame). His illnesses led to the Prince of Wales being named Regent, to act in his stead. It’s a fascinating time, when social strictures aimed at privileging the social elite stood in sharp contrast with advances in science, technology and trade that threatened to make the aristocrats irrelevant.
My dozen British and Regency historical romances have inspired my research trips to England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, France, Spain and other countries — there being no substitute for stepping on the soil that Beau Brummell and his champagne-polished Hessians once trod.
