ARC Review: Not Another Duke (The Kent's Row Duchesses #2) by Jess Michaels
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Series: The Kent's Row Duchesses #2
Author: Jess Michaels
Published September 5th 2023 by The Passionate Pen, LLC
Goodreads Synopsis
After losing everything in a series of bad decisions, Roarke Desmond is dependent on his horrible cousins for an allowance. When they ask him to do something horrible: spy on their stepmother, the Duchess of Sidmouth, he doesn’t want to. But what he could provide to his terribly ill mother with what they’ll pay him is hard to avoid. So he agrees, hating himself all the way. But when he sees the duchess, the beautiful Flora, everything is turned upside down.
Flora loved her late husband, despite the difference in their ages and the contempt of his adult children. When he died, she resigned herself to the life of a young widow, never looking for love again. When Roarke Desmond steps into her life, her thoughts on the subject begin to shift.
The two keep coming into contact, with Roarke more and more captivated by her and feeling worse and worse about the lies he’s telling even as Flora’s feelings and desire toward him grows deeper. But when the truth comes out and the lies become danger, they’ll have to overcome the walls between them to save each other and maybe form a life together.
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Review
I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher, via NetGalley. This in no way impacted on my view.
Roarke Desmond may be related to aristocracy, but he has to beg for an allowance from his cousin's in order to support his ill mother. But when he's asked to spy on his late uncle's widow, Flora, Dowager Duchess of Sidmouth, it's harder than he thought. Flora is now living on Kent's Row, with the other dowagers, and is in mourning. Though her husband was quite a bit older than her, they had a loving relationship. Her step children, however, were the only sore point, and she's more than happy to remain a grieving widow. However, after seeing her friend Valaria find love, and meeting Roarke, she starts to consider a different future.
This book was great. Roarke was such a caring man, for both Flora and his mother, and though he was forced into deception, he hated every moment. Being asked to spy on the woman he was falling in love with, so that his wicked cousins could contest her inheritance. Flora was so sweet. She loved her late husband, and knew that her friends had had different experiences in marriage, but she never gloated about her love. Her and Roarke did have a hard time fully trusting each other, and opening themselves up to love completely, but it was all worth it in the end!
Dates Read:
October 21, 2023
Rating
3 Stars
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