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Ten Things I Hate About the Duke


A Romance Novel


Book 2 of the Difficult Dukes Series


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Historical Romance,
  • Regency Romance,
  • Enemies to Lovers,
  • Marriage of Convenience
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  • Fiery heroines whose blunt honesty shakes up high society
  • Messy reputations and reluctant marriages with real consequences
  • Wild noblemen trying to fix their own disasters
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USA Today bestselling author Loretta Chase continues her Difficult Dukes series with this delightful spin on Shakespeare's classic, The Taming of the Shrew.

This time, who's taming whom…

Cassandra Pomfret holds strong opinions she isn't shy about voicing. But her extremely plain speaking has caused an uproar, and her exasperated father, hoping a husband will rein her in, has ruled that her beloved sister can't marry until Cassandra does.

Now, thanks to a certain wild-living nobleman, the last shreds of Cassandra's reputation are about to disintegrate, taking her sister's future and her family's good name along with them.

The Duke of Ashmont's looks make women swoon. His character flaws are beyond counting. He's lost a perfectly good bride through his own carelessness. He nearly killed one of his two best friends. Still, troublemaker that he is, he knows that damaging a lady's good name isn't sporting.

The only way to right the wrong is to marry her…and hope she doesn't smother him in his sleep on their wedding night.

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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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