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The Duchess Takes a Husband

By Harper St. George

🎧 Narrated by: Justine Eyre 

Series: The Gilded Age Heiresses, Book 4 

Book 46 of 2024

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The Gilded Age Heiresses is a series of interconnected standalones. While you can read them individually, you do meet the characters across the different books, so I enjoyed reading them in order. 

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Readers may want to check the content warnings before diving into this one. Camille is the Dowager of Hereford, and her first marriage was truly awful. I loved watching her heal and become more empowered during the course of this book. Jacob was so patient and kind and they were a perfect match! 

🎧 I really enjoyed this on audiobook. Justine Eyre did an excellent job with all the accents and bringing all of the characters to life. 

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A scandalous arrangement between a London rogue and an American duchess leads to lavish stakes.

Despite her illustrious title, Camille, Duchess of Hereford, remains what she has always been—a pariah. Though her title means she’s technically accepted by London Society, the rebellious widow with her burgeoning interest in the suffrage movement and her American ways isn’t exactly high on every hostess’s guest list. But Camille starts to wonder if being an outcast is not without its perks when the tantalizing answer to her secret fear appears in the shape of Jacob Thorne, the illegitimate son of an earl and co-owner of London’s infamous Montague Club.

Jacob is used to making deals with his club members—he’s just not accustomed to them being beautiful women. Nor have the terms ever been so sweetly seductive as Camille’s shocking proposition. To finally buy his own club and gain the crucial backing of investors, Camille offers Jacob the respectability of a fake engagement with a duchess. In return, the tempting widow has one condition: she wants Jacob to show her if it’s possible for her to experience pleasure in bed.

The lure of such a bargain proves too delicious to resist, drawing the enterprising rogue and the wallflower duchess into a scandalous game and an even more dangerous gamble of the heart.