No Dukes Need Apply by Gemma Blackwood on June 7th, 2020
Genres: Historical, Romance
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A fiercely independent heiress and a power-hungry duke go to war over an election – only to find there’s more than political power at stake…
Lady Selina Balfour would make the perfect duchess. But the Duke of Caversham is far from her idea of the perfect husband.
Malcolm Locke is everything Selina hates about powerful men – reckless, arrogant, and all too aware of his own chiselled jaw. Which makes it all the more important that Selina’s candidate beats his in the upcoming election. Someone needs to teach the duke to behave.
Perhaps the first lesson can be that kissing a woman until her knees go weak isn’t enough to make her give up her ideals.
Everyone knows that Malcolm is in dire need of a respectable duchess, an heir, and an end to his rivalry with Selina. But why is he so determined to pursue the one woman who’ll never have him?
Selina’s not sure she wants to know the answer. Her wounded heart is more than she can risk. But she’ll happily take on the duke in the political arena, if a war is what he wants.
There’s only one possible outcome. Defeat for one. Victory for the other.
Unless there’s a sweet surrender in store for them both…
I received No Dukes Need Apply for free. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
The Balfours are back with the fourth book in this steamy historical romance series. This time it is almost-a-spinster, Selina Balfour, that is thrown headlong into a romance she never saw coming.
Malcolm Locke, the Duke of Caversham, has been a political and personal rival of the Balfour family for years. Yet, he can’t stop proposing to the woman he believes is his perfect duchess, Selina. When Selena and Malcolm end up on opposite sides of an important election, their arguments and passions set fire to their opposing worlds.
As the election gets closer, Blackwood creates deeply emotional and fantastically romantic situations for our couple to further their complete connection. In the beginning, I wondered how the two would ever get together. Blackwood develops a love so true, my happy tears flowed by the end of the book.
More Balfours means more books. Keep them coming Gemma! I’ll be waiting for another tremendous love story.
About Gemma Blackwood
Gemma Blackwood writes clean historical romances with action, wit, dashing heroes, brave heroines and the sweetest of happy endings.
She can be found in the West Country writing in a shed at the bottom of her garden, which is the only place she can get away from her inquisitive cat.
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