The Matter of a Marquess by Jess Michaels
Viscountess Aurora Lovell has been in love with one man her entire life, but life intruded and never allowed her to be with him. She came to accept it, marrying for title rather than love. Now a widow, she’s busy trying to figure out how to manage a scandal about to destroy her world when she is invited to a country party. Desperate to escape the realities of her life, she accepts.
Nicholas Gillingham has always lived his life between two worlds. Raised by a servant, but secretly the bastard son of the infamous Duke of Roseford, he never felt he belonged. Injured saving others, he is now a war hero and improbably in line to be gifted a title for his service. A way to never feel so helpless as he did when he lost Aurora the first time. But to influence the right people, he needs his brother’s help and finds himself at a country party.
Time and distance mean nothing when Aurora and Nicholas meet again. But can they overcome a tangled past filled with bitter betrayal, a scandal that could ruin the future AND a very intrusive dog in order to find their way back to each other? Or will love be just as painful the second time around?
- File Name:the-matter-of-a-marquess-by-jess-michaels.epub
- Original Title:The Matter of a Marquess: The Duke’s By-Blows, Book 3
- Creator:Michaels, Jess
- Language:en
- Identifier:3552262238
- Publisher:The Passionate Pen LLC
- Date:2020-08-18
- File Size:341.595 KB
Table of Content
- 1. Title Page
- 2. Copyright
- 3. Contents
- 4. Dedication
- 5. Prologue
- 6. Chapter 1
- 7. Chapter 2
- 8. Chapter 3
- 9. Chapter 4
- 10. Chapter 5
- 11. Chapter 6
- 12. Chapter 7
- 13. Chapter 8
- 14. Chapter 9
- 15. Chapter 10
- 16. Chapter 11
- 17. Chapter 12
- 18. Chapter 13
- 19. Chapter 14
- 20. Chapter 15
- 21. Chapter 16
- 22. Chapter 17
- 23. Chapter 18
- 24. Chapter 19
- 25. Chapter 20
- 26. Chapter 21
- 27. Chapter 22
- 28. Epilogue
- 29. The Duke’s By-Blows
- Excerpt of The Redemption of a Rogue
- 30. Also by Jess Michaels
- 31. About the Author
Book 3 of The Duke's By-Blows was gut-wrenchingly hard to read. There were so many emotions that ripped through the reader: anger, pain, heartache, hatred, love, joy...every emotion you can imagine that can be controlled by others to inflict suffering on another person. All these and more were inflicted on the two main characters from a young age and well into their adult lives. Lies that controlled them, tore them apart and made them angry with each other for years. Thankfully there was a great deal of humor to balance out all the angst and drama this book threw at the reader. The love, passion, and romance were high too, although it was muted for quite a while. To see the way the family drew together to protect their own when needed in this series was heart-warming, to say the least. There was a great deal of intrigue in this book; enough to keep the reader wondering what in the world was going to happen next. Mixed with the romance, it made for a very interesting read. The only issue I had with the book, really, was how it ended. Even though there was a HEA, it still left something lacking in its ending. Although this book was so different from the first, that in no way deterred it from earning its place amongst the Keeper for the Shelves books.
Book 3 of The Duke's By-Blows was gut-wrenchingly hard to read. There were so many emotions that ripped through the reader: anger, pain, heartache, hatred, love, joy...every emotion you can imagine that can be controlled by others to inflict suffering on another person. All these and more were inflicted on the two main characters from a young age and well into their adult lives. Lies that controlled them, tore them apart and made them angry with each other for years. Thankfully there was a great deal of humor to balance out all the angst and drama this book threw at the reader. The love, passion, and romance were high too, although it was muted for quite a while. To see the way the family drew together to protect their own when needed in this series was heart-warming, to say the least. There was a great deal of intrigue in this book; enough to keep the reader wondering what in the world was going to happen next. Mixed with the romance, it made for a very interesting read. Although this book was so different from the first, that in no way deterred it from earning its place amongst the Keeper for the Shelves books.
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