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A Lady for a Duke
A Romance Novel by Alexis Hall
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Queer Romance,
- Historical Romance,
- Friends to Lovers
This book is for you if you're into...
- Queer historical romance with trans leads
- Friends-to-lovers stories with high emotional stakes
- Characters rebuilding connection after years of loss and transformation
From Little Stack
Alexis Hall has become a beloved figure in romance for sweeping and diverse romances. A Lady for a Duke offers a new take on the friends-to-lovers trope. Viola Carroll let everyone believe she died in battle so that she could live as a woman, even if it meant losing everything from her old life. That included her closest friend, Justin de Vere, who was left devastated and broken by the war. When their families reconnect, Viola goes to care for Justin, but is he ready to know the real her, and to love the woman she always was?
From the bestselling author of Husband Material comes a lush, sweeping queer historical romance where sparks fly between childhood friends after a life-changing separation—perfect for fans of Bridgerton, Evie Dunmore, and Lisa Kleypas!
When Viola Carroll was presumed dead at Waterloo she took the opportunity to live, at last, as herself. But freedom does not come without a price, and Viola paid for hers with the loss of her wealth, her title, and her closest companion, Justin de Vere, the Duke of Gracewood.
Only when their families reconnect, years after the war, does Viola learn how deep that loss truly was. Shattered without her, Gracewood has retreated so far into grief that Viola barely recognises her old friend in the lonely, brooding man he has become.
As Viola strives to bring Gracewood back to himself, fresh desires give new names to old feelings. Feelings that would have been impossible once and may be impossible still, but which Viola cannot deny. Even if they cost her everything, all over again.
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