A Duke's Daughter
Apr 2020 · The Wild Rose Press Inc
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Can a duke be thrown into debtor's prison? If so, Emily, dependent on her cousin, the heir to her father's impoverished dukedom, wonders what will become of her? With great reluctance, she agrees to marry a man willing to pay for an aristocratic bride. Rejected by the woman he loves, Ambrose Hawkins, shipper, importer, and former pirate, settles for a female who can further his social ambitions. His marriage to Emily is prospering until a man who blames Hawkins for the failure of his own courtship is murdered. Hawkins is the obvious suspect… …and the obvious suspect usually hangs.
Can a duke be thrown into debtor's prison? If so, Emily, dependent on her cousin, the heir to her father's impoverished dukedom, wonders what will become of her? With great reluctance, she agrees to marry a man willing to pay for an aristocratic bride. Rejected by the woman he loves, Ambrose Hawk...
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Lori Dykes
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May 10, 2020
1741 It seemed through the ages the Dukes of Normande had not overly taken care of the estate but muddled through and such was the case with the current Duke. Such was the case was with Henry, the eighth duke of Normand, Emily Saintonge's cousin. After her father had passed away, Claude had taken over and then his son Henry. It seemed the finances were in dire straights, thus she could not fathom why he had brought her to Covent Gardens to see a play. She could only wonder about the cost! That is when she was introduced to Mr. Ambrose Hawkins. Her cousin had arranged for her to marry him if he found her pleasing, thus helping with the debt owed. A time honored way of things? This story is the journey of Emily and Ambrose and overcoming their marriage of convenience with some suspense and mystery thrown into the mix. An enjoyable read! I read this through NetGallery
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Kathleen Buckley has loved writing ever since she learned to read. After a career which included light bookkeeping, working as a paralegal, and a stint as a security officer (fascinating!), she began to write as a second career, rather than as a hobby. Her first historical romance was penned (well, wordprocessed) after re-reading Georgette Heyer's Georgian/Regency romances and realizing that Ms. Heyer would never be able to write another (having died some forty years earlier). She is now the author of three published Georgian romances: An Unsuitable Duchess, Most Secret, and Captain Easterday's Bargain, with a fourth, A Masked Earl, completed but not yet released. She is in the final throes of revising the fifth.Warning: no bodices are ripped in her romances, which might be described as "powder & patch & peril" rather than Jane Austen drawingroom. They contain no explicit sex, but do contain mild bad language, as the situations in which her characters find themselves sometimes call for an oath a little stronger than "Zounds!"
Kathleen Buckley has loved writing ever since she learned to read. After a career which included light bookkeeping, working as a paralegal, and a stint as a security officer (fascinating!), she began to write as a second career, rather than as a hobby. Her first historical romance was penned (wel...
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