Well! This was a fun read!
One Night for Seduction (Wicked Dukes Club #1) by Erica Ridley
A quirky lady of breeding concerned with efficiency and organization like the need for standardizing weights and measures so that a customer is not cheated, or shorted in their purchasing measurements, be it bushels or gallons. Diana Middleton is a very different central character. A mathematical genius she sees herself as a covert agent of change, able to, “Have a positive impact on the world around her, at a level outside the home. " "A humble sleuth, avenging misapplied mathematics every day for the betterment and fair treatment of all England’s citizens."
A simply gorgeous duke who came by his dukedom because everyone else died out, so had to find his own way through the mire of all things dukely.
Caleb Sutton, fifth Duke of Colehaven,(Col) takes his role seriously and is on parliamentary committees seeking change including one of interest to Diana that "pushed through the Weights and Measures Act of 1815."
With his close friend since school, Valentine Fairfax, the Duke of Eastleigh, Col bought a tavern they dubbed The Wicked Duke. It is more a club where all are welcome, unlike White's or Brook's. As Col explains to Diana, “The world may not be equitable for all men, but at least our tavern can be. Regardless of color, creed, or the size of one’s coin purse.”
On a ten-year lucky betting streak Col places a bet with Thaddeus Middleton that he can have Thad's spinster ward married by the end of the season. That's before Col meets Diana.
After that he's not sure of anything, including "What sort of woman prefers mathematics to marriage?”
A delightful romantic piece of nonsense with some amusing lines all the while fueled by some very serious concepts.
One of my favorite cameos was these lords and soldiers bemoaning that Thaddeus, after six grueling years of war, can't seem to get his ward turned in the correct direction--marriage.
Eastleigh sympathizes with the comment, "Girls are far trickier than French soldiers ... Had we sent a crop of Diamonds of the First Water to the front lines in lieu of the Royal Army, Napoleon would have been trussed up decades ago. "
Their discussions rambled on in a similar vein, have nonsense, half serious.
I was amused! I was caught!!
A NetGalley ARC
*****
A simply gorgeous duke who came by his dukedom because everyone else died out, so had to find his own way through the mire of all things dukely.
Caleb Sutton, fifth Duke of Colehaven,(Col) takes his role seriously and is on parliamentary committees seeking change including one of interest to Diana that "pushed through the Weights and Measures Act of 1815."
With his close friend since school, Valentine Fairfax, the Duke of Eastleigh, Col bought a tavern they dubbed The Wicked Duke. It is more a club where all are welcome, unlike White's or Brook's. As Col explains to Diana, “The world may not be equitable for all men, but at least our tavern can be. Regardless of color, creed, or the size of one’s coin purse.”
On a ten-year lucky betting streak Col places a bet with Thaddeus Middleton that he can have Thad's spinster ward married by the end of the season. That's before Col meets Diana.
After that he's not sure of anything, including "What sort of woman prefers mathematics to marriage?”
A delightful romantic piece of nonsense with some amusing lines all the while fueled by some very serious concepts.
One of my favorite cameos was these lords and soldiers bemoaning that Thaddeus, after six grueling years of war, can't seem to get his ward turned in the correct direction--marriage.
Eastleigh sympathizes with the comment, "Girls are far trickier than French soldiers ... Had we sent a crop of Diamonds of the First Water to the front lines in lieu of the Royal Army, Napoleon would have been trussed up decades ago. "
Their discussions rambled on in a similar vein, have nonsense, half serious.
I was amused! I was caught!!
A NetGalley ARC
*****
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