The Duke's Scandalous Secret

Rating:
Summary: enjoyed very much
Review: I really liked this book. Very definitely kept my interest and curiosity til the end of the story. I have been in a kind of a reading funk and this book got me out of it! Liked both the hero and heroine, real characters, enough tension between them, and a few well-kept secrets that kept you interested to read til the end. Romantic and funny and clever too. try it, you will like it.

Rating:
Summary: solid Regency romance
Review: The Blades want to bet the Dashers that they can learn the dark secret of the Duke of Ravensfield before their rivals. The Dashers are uninterested in finding out why Thomas Flanders rusticates for long stretches of time. However, Dasher Lynette Overton has loved Thomas from the first moment she saw him and thinks this is the right time to gain his love by arriving unannounced in a state of peril.

Without informing her friends, Lynette travels to Ravensfield where Thomas is unhappy to see her. He tries to get rid of her because he does not want her to know his secret that he writes gothic romances under an alias. She is keeping him from his work that is needed to pay bills. As Lynnette refuses to leave and shams illness, her efforts to learn who set up her late mother to be called a thief and treated by the Ton as a pariah leads to her peril as someone wants that kept secret. With Lynnette in danger, Thomas realizes he loves her and will keep her safe although it means not new novels at least at this time.

THE DUKE'S SCANDALOUS SECRET is a solid Regency romance that will provide readers with plenty of pleasure. The story line has two subplots with Lynette in the middle of both. The resolution of stopping the villain who destroyed her mother and wants to do likewise with Lynnette is clever as it ultimately intertwines the tale into a delightful cohesive novel starring two fine protagonists.

Harriet Klausner