Well here’s a pretty mess 🤣

Ne'er Duke Well by Alexandra Vasti    

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A regency romance with a difference. Peter Kent has been living in Louisiana. Until he’s tracked down and told he’s the next Duke of Stanhope, and by the way you have two half siblings!

Peter doesn’t want to return to England but those siblings made his heart break. If he didn’t rescue them then who would.

The children are a delightful challenge, especially Lu who seems to have set her sights on pirating as a career. 

Peter has a few barriers to cross to gain guardianship of the children—but that’s not going to stop him. 

He turns for help from Lady Selina Ravenscroft. They’d been playmates years before.

Selina has secretly been filling a lending library to the hilt with books about sex, erotica—anything so that debutants don’t suffer by knowing nothing about their bodies and desires. What should happen if her secret gets out?

Selina decides Peter should marry. Peter closes his eyes and marches forward. After his rousing speech in the House of Lords that offended some of the guardian decision makers he has to do something.

A cracker friends to lovers regency romp with several sturdy sub plots. Selina is a wonder.

An excellent read!

A St. Martin’s Press ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.