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Cargando... How to Lose a Duke in Ten Dayspor Laura Lee Guhrke
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I enjoyed this a lot. ( ) This excellent romance is set in Victorian times. The American heiress, Edie, has fashioned a perfect life for herself. She's a duchess, she has status and independence. In exchange for her money, the duke took himself off to Africa, indefinitely, shortly after the wedding. A marriage in name only, just the way Edie wants it. But then Stuart, the formerly impoverished Duke of Margrave, had a change of heart. He almost dies in Kenya, his faithful valet does die. He decides to return to England and see if his marriage can be salvaged. It's an uphill climb. Edie has no use for men, especially her husband. Through a slow and subtle stalking, Stuart finally realizes his goal. And Edie has her vengeance on the man who drove her to London, away from New York society, courtesy of her husband's connections in the aristocracy. Revenge is sweet. 3.5 stars. There was quite a bit that was good about this book, an intriguing start, a besotted hero, all the minor characters had personalities that helped flesh out the story. There seemed to be a major inconsistency with the heroine between the last book and this one, if she had only been pretending to consider taking a lover in the last book I think it should have at least been mentioned in this one, she had been speaking just with her friend, so we had no reason to believe it was a bald faced lie... but it was so far from the realm of possibility in this book, that something was definitely off. And the ending was weaker than the rest of the story, imo, long scenes where characters explain things that the other characters hadn't grasped but were likely already obvious to the reader by that point. A bit stilted. I'm glad I read it though, and look forward to the next! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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La autora best seller de USA Today, Laura Lee Guhrke, vuelve con una historia sobre un negocio, un matrimonio por conveniencia... y la posibilidad de que el amor dure toda la vida. Tenían un trato... Desde el momento que conoció al temerario y despreocupado Duque de Margrave, Edie supo que él podía cambiar su vida. Y cuando él estuvo de acuerdo con su escandalosa propuesta de un matrimonio por conveniencia, ella pasó de ser una heredera estadounidense arruinada a ser una duquesa inglesa. Cinco años después, está encantada con su plan, especialmente porque su esposo vive en otro continente. Pero los tratos se hacen para romperlos... Al casarse con una heredera, Stuart pudo pagar las enormes deudas de su familia, y los términos de Edie que establecían que él debía marcharse de Inglaterra para siempre parecían un precio pequeño a pagar. Pero cuando un encuentro cercano con la muerte lo hace volver a casa, decide que es momento para un matrimonio verdadero con su hermosa esposa estadounidense, y le propone un nuevo y atrevido trato: diez días para ganarse un beso de ella. Pero ¿son diez días suficientes para ganarse su corazón? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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