The Spring Duke by Jillian Eaton

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A hot-headed American heiress…
After three broken engagements, Miss Athena Dogwood is ready to give up on finding love. Until a secret letter hidden away by her great-grandmother leads her across the Atlantic and onto the doorstep of the ill-tempered (albeit very handsome) Duke of Blackburn.

A cold-hearted duke…
Ambrose gave up on love a long time ago. A widower with a young daughter to raise, he needs a governess more than he needs a wife. And he certainly doesn’t need an impertinent American heiress. Especially one who speaks like a sailor, looks like an angel, and stirs desires inside of him best left alone.

A smoldering passion ready to ignite…
But Athena knows beneath Ambrose’s icy exterior is a man who wants to love again, and she’s willing to do whatever it takes to prove it. Even if that means risking everything, including her own heart…

Get ready for an enthralling battle of wits in this British versus American romance! The Spring Duke is the second novella in the best-selling A Duke for All Seasons quartet.

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File Name:the-spring-duke-by-jillian-eaton.epub
Original Title:The Spring Duke (A Duke for All Seasons)
Creator:Jillian Eaton
Language:EN
Identifier:uuid:ea448389-cae1-4032-848b-8cda5682c4a1
Publisher:Jillian Eaton
Date:2019-04-02
Subject:regency era,regency duke,Regency romance,New Release Historical,Historical Romance,Best selling romance,99 cent romance
File Size:246.676 KB

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1. Other Titles by Jillian Eaton
2. Description
3. Chapter One
4. Chapter Two
5. Chapter Three
6. Chapter Four
7. Chapter Five
8. Chapter Six
9. Chapter Seven
10. Chapter Eight
11. Chapter Nine
12. Chapter Ten
13. Epilogue
14. Author’s Note
15. A Dangerous Seduction
16. Exclusive Excerpt
17. About the Author

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Kiley O：

The Spring Duke, Book 2 of A Duke for All Seasons series, was about Miss Athena Dogwood, an American heiress, and His Grace Ambrose, the Duke of Blackburn, a widower raising his young daughter. Athena, a few weeks shy of 30 and having three broken engagements behind her, found a letter written from the Duke of Blackburn's great grandfather to her great grandmother in which they had courted verbally but were never able to follow through with getting married. With that knowledge, she traveled from America to London to propose marriage to the current Duke of Blackburn, who was dead-set against getting married but desperately needed a governess for his very headstrong daughter. Immediately upon meeting the Duke, Athena showed him the letter and proceeded to tell him she was there to marry him in order to fulfill what their great grandparents had not been able to do. Instead, he offered her the position of governess, which she accepted in order to stay close to him in hopes of convincing him to marry her. While there was a spark of attraction between the two main characters, the whole story was a bit surreal and did not show any signs of historical accuracy. There were hardly any women of the 1800s who would have acted as Athena did, and the verbiage was mostly wrong. Even American heiresses weren't that bold and arrogantly self-assured to have left home alone to travel across the world for a husband. Ambrose, even though it had been eleven years since he'd lost his wife in childbirth, was not ready to let her go. And yet, he couldn't seem to resist Athena, no matter how hard he tried. Refusing to admit to any feelings for Athena, Ambrose began closing himself off again...but feared losing her in some way other than death. Athena, after repeatedly trying to get Ambrose to open up, finally admitted it might be an impossibility. The book, or rather the novella, was definitely short and, yes, it was good. However, it actually could have used a few more chapters so that it had a bit more depth and allowed for the relationship between Ambrose and Athena to actually develop before the eyes of the reader instead of leaping from the first meeting to the end. It was more hollow than it should have been by not allowing for the reader to "see" the two main characters actually spending time together. Instead, they met, had two or three conversations, they had heartache, they got back together, the end. Umm..huh? Where was the meat of the story? What happened for them to go from meeting to a relationship? There was a bit of angst and drama, certainly...but the story doesn't have time to truly develop that relationship. Nope, no five-star rating for this novella, good though it was, and definitely not getting added to the Keeper for the Shelves collection.

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