A Good Duke Is Hard to Find by Christina Britton

A Good Duke Is Hard to Find

by Christina Britton

Get swept away by the new Regency romance from the author who Publishers Weekly calls 'irresistible.'Perhaps she could have survived the first scandal, or even the second, but when Miss Lenora Hartley finds herself left at the altar, victim to a third broken engagement, it's time to escape the ton's judgmental stares. A visit to the Isle of Synne is just what's needed to calm her nerves and avoid her father's overbearing attempts to find another suitor. But this carefree respite in the seaside resort town is clouded by the meddling of her hostess, the eccentric Lady Tesh.Peter Ashford...Read more

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3 of 5 stars

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I was so looking forward to a good historical romance this weekend. Unfortunately, this wasn't it. Peter, our hero is a broody mess (which is fine) but it was the execution of the broody mess in conjunction with Lenore (who's vacillated between being a doormat for her father and a strong-willed woman) that left me wanting.

The title also confused me a bit, considering Peter isn't a duke until the epilogue making his title more of an afterthought and not really necessary to the story. So why have it for the title?

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