One Season with the Duke 

By Addy Du Lac

🎧 Narrated by: Nneka Okoye

Standalone 

Book 56 of 2024

This one is for my historical romance reader friends who love when he’s in love with her from the start – always a favorite trope for me, no matter the genre. One Season with the Duke had delicious tension, and I cannot believe that this was author Addy DuLac’s debut OR that she doesn’t have another book coming out until 2025! I know I have a lot to read…but I want more of THIS. It gave me Bridgerton Season 1 vibes where the drama was just turned up to 11 at all times. 

🎧 I listened to the audiobook in a sitting or two while multitasking, and I think that’s kind of the perfect vibe for this book. The set up is a bit over the top and ridiculous, which I generally love, and the characters are kind of too focused on their problems to think logically for a minute. Nneka Okoye brought this book to life beautifully, I also enjoyed her work on Mortal Follies and An Island Princess Starts a Scandal. 

DuLac takes a Bridgerton the show approach to Hettie’s race, where it’s mentioned that it could be a problem, but it doesn’t really come up again.

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Heiress Henrietta Monfort would never do anything to hurt her beloved aunt and uncle. But thanks to her cousin—who’s discovered a secret about her parentage that even she didn’t know—she is moments away from ruin…unless she marries him. Hettie has no choice. She must accept the villainous snake’s hand in marriage. So be it. But no man will ever own her heart, body, or soul.

Lord Findley has always had a soft spot for Hettie. Discovering that she’s being blackmailed into marriage is nothing short of appallingly outrageous. How could he allow someone unworthy to marry the gentle-hearted and bright-eyed Hettie—let alone a blaggard of the lowest order? To hell with it. He’ll marry her himself…even if it is the scandal of the season.

Now they’re racing for Scotland, praying they can outrun the jilted crook who seeks Hettie’s hand and her fortune. But ahead of them lies their greatest obstacle yet…and one unexpected—and damnably inconvenient—attraction that will turn both their worlds upside down.