Prepare yourself to be dazzled. One Dance with a Duke is one of those exceptional romances that immediately found its way to my top favorites (ten of which I sent to Jane at Dear Author… if I had finished this book before sending off the list you would most assuredly have found it with the rest.)
The sexual tension is through the roof. The foreplay is salivating. The sex is piping hot.
The hero is scrumptious. The heroine plucky. With dialogue to die sigh for.
In short: fabulous.
Lady Amelia d’Orsay is a plump spinster and a bit of a wallflower with a fondness for embroidery, planning meals, and her stupid foolish halfwit brother Jack. When she discovers Jack owes the Duke of Midnight 400 pounds she confronts the man, stealing his hand with an impetuousness that surprises even her and leads him out on the dance floor.
Spencer Dumarque, 4th Duke of Morland, notoriously known as the Duke of Midnight, is socially inept on many fronts. He gets disoriented and dizzy at inopportune moments, is impossibly rude, and has a fondness for horses so deep he’ll go to any lengths; pay any price to own one retired champion horse, including bankrupting idiotic boys.
This book is the first in the Stud Club trilogy.
The Trilogy Arc: Discover who murdered the leader and founder of the Stud Club: Leopold Chatwick.
Loved the change of pace: A quick marriage – but not marriage of convenience.
The Slightly Illogical: Amelia accepting Spencer’s proposal, signing the register with defiance and surety when he’s accused of murder, and then recanting her trust by bedtime. This strange turn of events allows for some very hot flirting and petting so I was more than okay with it. Of course, she wasn’t really afraid of him and didn’t truly believe him capable of murder; though that’s the excuse she gave him. She was afraid she couldn’t protect her heart from certain heartbreak.
Rating: 5 Stars
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Placing this one in my shopping list!
You won’t be disappointed!
This is a fantastic read – couldn’t put it down. I LOVED Spencer and although some of Amelia’s decisions bordered on the “whoohoo” side of things, I still enjoyed her. Also some scorching moments!