Desperate Duchesses: Volume 1

· Desperate Duchesses Book 1 · HarperAudio · Narrated by Rosalyn Landor
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Welcome to a world of reckless sensuality and glittering sophistication . . . of dangerously handsome gentlemen and young ladies longing to gain a title . . . of games played for high stakes, including—on occasion—a lady's virtue.

A marquess's sheltered only daughter, Lady Roberta St. Giles falls in love with a man she glimpses across a crowded ballroom: a duke, a game player of consummate skill, a notorious rakehell who shows no interest in marriage—until he lays eyes on Roberta.

Yet the Earl of Gryffyn knows too well that the price required to gain a coronet is often too high. Damon Reeve, the earl, is determined to protect the exquisite Roberta from chasing after the wrong destiny.

Can Damon entice her into a high-stakes game of his own, even if his heart is likely to be lost in the venture?

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4.7
3 reviews
Emzy Strong
September 7, 2024
I enjoyed this book. The characters are inviting. I love the setting and the intricate moves coupled with the chess games. I struggle the most with the cheating trope. It is not a trope I really enjoy. The story is beautifully written and I did love it. The author is very skilled and I love the way they write. My struggle again was the trope used.
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Eloisa James is a USA Today and New York Times bestselling author and professor of English literature, who lives with her family in New York, but can sometimes be found in Paris or Italy. She is the mother of two and, in a particularly delicious irony for a romance writer, is married to a genuine Italian knight.

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