![]() ![]() He quickly realizes he needs a wife to bring up the children, and to ease their way into society, his future wife cannot be anything less than a duke’s daughter. Because of a dishonest lawyer, Leopold lost track of where his children were, and has since rediscovered four. The novel begins well enough: Leopold Dauntry, Duke of Villiers, promised on his almost-deathbed that he would personally look after his six illegitimate children. Unfortunately, it disappointed me sadly – so badly, in fact, that I put it aside for a number of weeks because I just couldn’t be bothered to read on. So yes, this is a book I really wanted to read, and expected to love. The final volume of the Desperate Duchesses series, it was to contain the romance of the charismatic Duke of Villiers, who’d lost a fiancée to another man in Desperate Duchesses, almost died and befriended, not-quite-wooed another lady in An Affair Before Christmas, and lost a third lady to a rival in This Duchess of Mine. ![]() Undoubtedly, A Duke of Her Own by Eloisa James was one of the most highly anticipated novels this year for me, as it was for many other readers. ![]()
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