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A Duke in Shining Armor


A Romance Novel


Book 1 of the Difficult Dukes Series


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Historical Romance,
  • Runaway Bride,
  • Friends to Lovers
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  • Runaway brides causing chaos in high society
  • Bookish heroines who defy expectations and climb out windows
  • Rakes reluctantly trying to do the right thing
Publisher Description

Not all dukes are created equal. Most are upstanding members of Society. And then there's the trio known as The Dis-Graces.

Hugh Philemon Ancaster, seventh Duke of Ripley, will never win prizes for virtue. But even he draws the line at running off with his best friend's bride. All he's trying to do is recapture the slightly inebriated Lady Olympia Hightower and return her to her intended bridegroom.

For reasons that elude her, bookish, bespectacled Olympia is supposed to marry a gorgeous rake of a duke. The ton is flabbergasted. Her family's ecstatic. And Olympia? She's climbing out of a window, bent on a getaway. But tall, dark, and exasperating Ripley is hot on her trail, determined to bring her back to his friend. For once, the world-famous hellion is trying to do the honorable thing.

So why does Olympia have to make it so deliciously difficult for him . . . ?

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I want the (story's) history to be authentic, so that my readers feel they're time traveling to early 1800s England, although it's an idealized version of that world.

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