A Duke’s lot!

Duchess Material by Emily Sullivan       

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Phoebe Atkinson is in trouble. Arrested and taken to Bow Street, in desperation, she sends a note to the one person she hasn’t communicated with for years. An old friend who she’d had feelings for. Out of the blue, he’d became not plain Will, but the heir to a dukedom, the Viscount Middlefield.

Will Margrave, the Duke of Ellis, of course went to the aid of his friend Alex’s impetuous sister. He wasn’t prepared for the leap of his heart when he saw her.

Will had a safe course planned out. Marriage to the reigning debutante Lady Gwendolyn Fairbanks, daughter to his mentor Lord Fairbanks who was guiding him through the House of Lords.

Now here was Phoebe, a schoolteacher in a school for underprivileged girls. Phoebe has been looking for a missing student when she was arrested.

Will ends up helping her in her search and from there it’s a short step to becoming more and more involved. He has a few shocks on the way, not the least being Phoebe’s outspokenness. He also makes some momentous decisions that will derail his well planned future. 

Alex meanwhile has her own set of problems as does Phoebe’s other sister, Freddie (Winifred).

A rather fun filled novel, with an underlying seriousness of working class and poor girls hopes and conditions in Victorian England.

A Forever ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.