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A Lady for a Duke
- Subgenre
- romance
- Edition year
- 2022-05-24
- Rating
- ★ 4.0 · 65 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
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A Regency-era queer historical romance following Viola Carroll, who was presumed dead at the Battle of Waterloo and spent years living anonymously after sacrificing her wealth, title, and bond with her childhood friend Justin de Vere, the Duke of Gracewood, to live as her true self. When their families reconnect years after the war, Viola learns Gracewood has been consumed by grief over her presumed death, retreating into a lonely, brooding man she barely recognises. As Viola works to restore her old friend to himself, long-buried feelings between them resurface, forcing them to confront the barriers that made their connection impossible once, and may still make it impossible now.
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- Friends to Lovers: “fresh desires give new names to old feelings.” source
- Second Chance Romance: “Only when their families reconnect, years after the war, does Viola learn how deep that loss truly was.” source
- Strong Heroine: “As Viola strives to bring Gracewood back to himself” source
- Tortured Hero: “Shattered without her, Gracewood has retreated so far into grief that Viola barely recognises her old friend in the lonely, brooding man he has become.” source
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