The Duke and the Siren by Jessie Clever

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Lady Vivianna Darby was considered a smashing success by society’s standards. After all, she landed Ryder Maxen, the coveted Duke of Margate, in her first season out. Wildly in love, Viv believed herself lucky to have escaped the cold marriages common amongst the ton.

Until she found her husband in bed with an opera singer.
Now four years later, Viv is determined to save her sisters from the same fate until Viv’s phaeton-racing husband suffers a deadly accident, and she’s forced by duty to go to his deathbed. Preparing herself for widowhood, she realizes she’ll soon be free of the empty marriage she’s been trapped in. But what will she do if he lives?

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File Name:the-duke-and-the-siren-by-jessie-clever.epub
Original Title:The Duke and the Siren
Creator:Clever, Jessie
Language:en
Identifier:2557290794
Publisher:Someday Lady Publishing, LLC
Date:2021-02-18
File Size:360.842 KB

Table of Content

1. Title Page
2. Copyright
3. Dedication
4. Contents
5. Chapter 1
6. Chapter 2
7. Chapter 3
8. Chapter 4
9. Chapter 5
10. Chapter 6
11. Chapter 7
12. Chapter 8
13. Chapter 9
14. Chapter 10
15. Chapter 11
16. Chapter 12
17. Chapter 13
18. Chapter 14
19. Chapter 15
20. Chapter 16
21. Epilogue
22. Ready For More?
23. Also by Jessie Clever
24. About the Author

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3 comments

Anastasia Sullivan：

Nope

Replya year ago

Kiley O：

The Duke and the Siren, Book 3 of The Unwanted Dukes series, was about Ryder Maxen (aka the Rogue Duke), the Duke of Margate, and his wife, Her Grace Vivianna Darby Maxen. The two had married during Viv's first season and she had thought them both in love...only to later find Ryder in bed with an opera singer. Vivianna returned to her brother Andrew Darby, the Duke of Ravenwood's home to help her three sisters to find better matches than she had, hoping they would find love. It had been 4 years since she had last seen her husband when an urgent knock sounded at the door of her brother's home, Vivi answered, only to find her husband's stable master's son standing there. When he told her that her husband was near death from a phaeton accident and asking for her, she determined to head home, uncertain as to whether she wanted him to live...or die and free her from the pain she had lived with since the discovery of his betrayal. For the entirety of their marriage, Ryder had no qualms about cheating on Vivianna with anyone and everybody. In fact, he reveled in the debauchery. He had no remorse for his actions or the pain he inflicted on his wife. He made one single attempt to seek Vivianna out to ask for her help...but then never did. He just returned to his roguish ways. Then the accident happened. Feeling duty-bound to nurse her estranged husband until he either succumbed to his injuries or survived to live another day, Vivianna stayed by his side. She struggled daily with her feelings of anger and sorrow of things that might have been. There were moments she prayed he would die and set her free. Then there were times she hoped he would survive and give her the answers she needed to hear. When Ryder woke for the first time after the accident, he didn't ask Vivianna how she was, didn't ask for her forgiveness. His first thought was for his horses' condition. His horses. He had no concern about her or what had been happening with her during their four years of separation. After the doctor examined Ryder, he informed him that he would have many months of recuperation before he was out of any danger. Not wanting to be the one to stay and nurse him back to health, she also didn't believe it safe for a nurse to do the job. Ryder showed his selfishness in not allowing Vivianna to hire a nurse to tend to him. He had no problem exploiting her feelings or taking advantage of her weaknesses in regard to him. After everything he had put her through, he still expected her to play nursemaid to him. When Vivianna told Ryder he had hurt her with his actions, he couldn't understand her reaction because he believed every husband took one or more lovers. He didn't see why she would be upset that he had done that as well. He was such a selfish, vain, egotistical man. He blamed his wicked ways on "restlessness". What an A-hole! Although Ryder apologized to her for being unfaithful and hurting her, the way he did it was...well it didn't seem sincere. He blamed it on "the actions of a careless young man heady with his first taste of the world"...and yet it was still happening at the time of his accident so how could he say it was the carelessness of a young man? He said he wished it wasn't Vivianna that he had hurt. Did that mean if it had been anyone else, it would have been okay to inflict such pain? All the pain mentioned above...and only to chapter 5 of the book. How much more could this woman endure? Well, how about Ryder receiving a dirty letter from one of his current lovers? And then he had the audacity to ask her how many men she had been with during their separation. It actually made him jealous...and yet he didn't even consider how many women he had been with and how that had hurt Vivianna. This guy...I mean seriously...he didn't even know what kind of condition his own estate was in...and had been in for at least 10 years! He was so into drinking, women, racing, gambling, and anything that kept him from being a responsible adult...let alone a Duke who had the care and well-being of servants and tenants. While understanding that Vivianna desperately wanted to make her marriage work, and that...surprisingly...Ryder was actually having his eyes opened to reality, I definitely did not enjoy this book. The subject matter (Multiple, years-long infidelity) hit too close to home. Ryder never really, truly repented of his ways, and Vivianna had every reason to distrust him. In all honesty, I was glad that Vivianna got her HEA...I just wish it had been with someone who deserved to share that HEA with her because Ryder sure the hell did not deserve it. He put her through four years of pain, anguish, ridicule, humiliation, scandal after scandal, and so much more that she should not have ever been able to trust him again. I can't say I enjoyed this book...at all. In all the previous books, Vivianna was portrayed as a strong woman who knew her mind and, while it's understandable that she should have doubts when dealing with her own issues, the author should have allowed her to remain that strong when dealing with Ryder. It shouldn't have been so easy for him to win his way back into her heart. The author allowed him to yank Vivianna's chain over and over, and manipulate her until he hurt her yet again. It was disappointing to see this story turn out so bad after the first two in the series were so good. This book definitely did not earn a 5-star rating, nor will it get added to the Keeper for the Shelves collection.

Reply3 years ago

Leena Aluru：

Such a disappointment

Reply3 years ago