One Dance with a Duke
In One Dance with a Duke—the first novel in Tessa Dare’s delightful new trilogy—secrets and scandals tempt the irresistible rogues of the Stud Club to gamble everything for love. A handsome and reclusive horse breeder, Spencer Dumarque, the fourth Duke of Morland, is a member of the exclusive...
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In One Dance with a Duke—the first novel in Tessa Dare’s delightful new trilogy—secrets and scandals tempt the irresistible rogues of the Stud Club to gamble everything for love. A handsome and reclusive horse breeder, Spencer Dumarque, the fourth Duke of Morland, is a member of the exclusive Stud Club, an organization so select it has only ten members—yet membership is attainable to anyone with luck. And Spencer has plenty of it, along with an obsession with a prize horse, a dark secret, and, now, a reputation as the dashing “Duke of Midnight.” Each evening he selects one lady for a breathtaking midnight waltz. But none of the women catch his interest, and nobody ever bests the duke—until Lady Amelia d’Orsay tries her luck.In a moment of desperation, the unconventional beauty claims the duke’s dance and unwittingly steals his heart. When Amelia demands that Spencer forgive her scapegrace brother’s debts, she never imagines that her game of wits and words will lead to breathless passion and a steamy proposal. Still, Spencer is a man of mystery, perhaps connected to the shocking murder of the Stud Club’s founder. Will Amelia lose her heart in this reckless wager or win everlasting love?
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345518859 (0345518853)
ASIN: 345518853
Publish date: May 25th 2010
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
European Literature,
British Literature,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Mystery,
Historical Romance,
Family,
Regency,
Regency Romance
Series: Stud Club (#1)
It was perverse and irrational and likely the sign of some severe mental defect-but the further Spencer displayed his gross incompetence as a sensitive human being, the more he engaged her sympathy. The worse he bungled every opportunity to put her at ease, the greater her own desire to soothe. And ...
It was perverse and irrational and likely the sign of some severe mental defect-but the further Spencer displayed his gross incompetence as a sensitive human being, the more he engaged her sympathy. The worse he bungled every opportunity to put her at ease, the greater her own desire to soothe. And ...
A perfect Cinderella story! The Duke of Midnight– the ton is totally intrigued by him. I mean, who wouldn’t? Well, that is where Amelia d’Orsay comes in. Where every woman dreams… to be the chosen one for that one magical waltz at midnight, Amelia does not. Not until that night when she chooses him ...
This was a pretty fun book. It started to drag toward the end and I was a little bit disappointed with the ending. It just seemed rather.. blah compared to the rest of the book. I liked both of the main characters, though I didn't love either of them. So overall it was really just a good book. I enj...
Ok let's just do this some other way HeroHe has hidden depths and when I understood them I liked him so much. But before that he seems cold. HeroineOur spinster who also have hidden things and when I understood those I understood her. RomanceThey lust, but he wants her to want it. And when ...