![]() ![]() ![]() I was hooked on this book from the rather harrowing opening lines and was carried along by the effortlessly flowing prose until I found myself turning the last page with a huge smile on my face. ![]() Harper has a way with words that never fails to capture me. But perhaps marrying the Duke of Rothschild, who happens to be the very opposite of a fusty aristocrat, isn’t the sacrifice she first thinks it is… Only when her unwilling sister is put on the line does she put herself forward. August Crenshaw is one such heiress, but she is a free spirit keen on a role in her father’s business empire rather than acquiring a ring on her finger. The novel is set during America’s Gilded Age, when so-called dollar princesses flocked from the States to London every season in the hope of marrying a titled man. For those reasons I was delighted when Book of the Month asked whether I would tell their readers about The Heiress Gets a Duke. George was one of the first authors I ever put on auto-buy after I had stumbled across her debut Viking romance and promptly fell in love with her voice. Before I started writing romance, I consumed a few hundred romance novels a year. ![]()
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