Book Review: Desperately Seeking a Duchess (All the Duke's Sins #2) By Christi Caldwell

 

Title: Desperately Seeking a Duchess (All the Duke's Sins #2)

Author: Christi Caldwell

Star: 4

Review:

This is a romance story that is able to bring several different elements to the story and blend them seamlessly together. Start with identical twins one of whom is a Duke and the bastard daughter of another Duke whose first encounter is anything but cordial and ends with him receiving a beating from her older brother.  He is on the brink of debtors prison but also has three younger sisters whom he loves and must provide for financially. But love is blind and he is given a shove by his youngest sister. All together an intriguing blending of the morals and correct manners for the time period.

All together a love story to be enjoyed while relaxing in a good easy chair with a cup of hot tea. I have rated this book 4 stars.

I received an ARC from Netgalley for my unbiased review 

Thank you, Frank for your review.

Synposis:

Cailin Audley doesn't fit in with Polite Society. A life spent among the working class taught her to value her independence in a way no newfound fortune or glittering ballroom could ever erase. When a major misstep sees the new heiress whisked away to the English countryside, Cailin soon realizes the vexing lengths her family will go to see her settled. But having risked her heart once before, Cailin has no interest in the men of the ton--especially not the frustratingly charming Duke of St. James.

Courtland Balfour, the Duke of St. James, devoted brother and notorious rogue, despises what he must become--a fortune hunter. But with the ducal coffers drained by his late, spendthrift of a father, Courtland knows his duty lies at the altar and he will do anything to ensure a future for his siblings. Just his luck that the one lady who could make this new fate bearable, who enflames him like no other, is the one woman who wants nothing to do with him or his title.

But when an act of desperation inadvertently lands he and Cailin at the heart of another scandal, Courtland knows better than to waste his chance. Surely he can convince Cailin to love him?

About The Author:

USA TODAY Bestselling author CHRISTI CALDWELL blames Judith McNaught's "Whitney, My Love!" for luring her into the world of historical romance. While sitting in her graduate school apartment at the University of Connecticut, Christi decided to set aside her notes and pick up her laptop to try her hand at romance. She believes the most perfect heroes and heroines have imperfections, and she rather enjoys torturing them before crafting them a well deserved happily ever after!

Christi makes her home in Charlotte, North Carolina where she spends her time writing her own enchanting historical romances, and baking surprisingly good cakes (almost 2 years in lockdown will do that) with her courageous son and twin daughters, each who with their daily antics provides limitless source material.