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Was it one night of passion...

When Lady Serena Boyce's husband, the elderly duke of Warrington, could not give her an heir, he begged her to take a lover in order to conceive a child. She never dreamed it would mean falling in love. One look at the handsome stranger who rescued her from a thief and virginal Serena was overcome with desire. Dark and compelling, Lucien Clayborne, marquess of Daneridge, was everything her honor warned her against. Yet the anguish in his soul drew her nearer...and before the night was through, she had gifted him with her innocence

...or a love they were destined to share?

Then the duke was murdered, and Lucien discovered that Serena was pregnant. Still reeling from the death of his cherished daughter and enraged by his first wife's callous betrayals, Lucien's honor demanded he make Serena his bride. But the rapture of their one night together had unlocked feelings he thought his heart had forgotten. Now, a chilling evil threatened their chance to claim a love that promised to last a lifetime.

Contains mature themes.

©2002 Shelley Bradley LLC (P)2018 Tantor Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Regency Regency Romance Romance Marriage Heartfelt
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You might enjoy this if you like a fairly gentle love story and a sentimental, old fashioned style.
I have read other books by this author and enjoyed them a LOT more. She’s a good writer. I don’t know what happened here. I found this one v repetitive. Her mum was a whore. We got it, the third time stated….! No need to say it in every chapter.
Also… the narration…
I’m British. No one talks like that.
I think the characterisation is meant to be ‘of its age’. Whatever it is, it’s not sexy and I want that in a romance novel. But perhaps if you’re not British and listening to this, you won’t find if grating (I am genuinely curious, like maybe an American woman is swooning over this, and maybe vice versa when I’m listening to American narrators drawling in a Texan accent etc).

It was long

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The chances of a sexually repressed duchess going to Vauxhall accompanied only by a friend and the friend's male escort is remote in the extreme.
The narrator is good.

This is definitely fiction

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The dialogue could be more subtle in places and less melodramatic, but the narrator gives it a lot of gusto.

Enthusiastic narrator

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