The end result of this profound cogitation was a precipitous flight out the library window. Her wedding day arrives, and the scene opens with our bride of the impecunious antecedents reconsidering her life choices with the help of a bit of spiked tea. Her five brothers, after all, will need to be rescued from her impecunious father.
She wasn’t likely to receive any marriage proposals, so when a young and reckless duke decides she’s really kind and might be a nice wife, she considers her position and accepts.
There was once a young woman who was getting a little long in the tooth. Plot: Runaway bride snares groom’s best friend, angst ensues Why did it take me so long to realize you’re my other half? Heat Factor: There’s a good deal of yearning and burningĬharacter Chemistry: Aces: I’ve known who you are for years. So why does Olympia have to make it so deliciously difficult for him. For once, the world-famous hellion is trying to do the honorable thing. But tall, dark, and exasperating Ripley is hot on her trail determined to bring her back to his friend. And Olympia? She’s climbing out of a window, bent on a getaway. All he’s trying to do is recapture the slightly inebriated Lady Olympia Hightower and return her to her intended bridegroom.įor reasons that elude her, bookish, bespectacled Olympia is supposed to marry a gorgeous rake of a duke.
But even he draws the line at running off with his best friend’s bride. Hugh Philemon Ancaster, seventh Duke of Ripley, will never win prizes for virtue. And then there’s the trio known as Their Dis-Graces. From Loretta Chase, New York Times bestselling author and one of the genre’s most beloved authors, the first in a new series about three men, known as the Dis-Graces, who vie for the title of The Worst Duke in London-and only the right heroine can tame the beast
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