But I cannot wait for future books about Lucie and Hattie. There is a sweet moment where the suffragettes are all talking about their friendship, being open and vulnerable with each other and it made me want more of those moments. Also, I felt like the side characters could have been stronger. The pacing dragged just a little in the middle as our two lovebirds kept circling around the same issue over and over. Perhaps this is about deciding on which side of history you want to be.” “Perhaps this is not a question of staying out of trouble, Your Grace. She’s a bluestocking, country girl who knows she’s smarter than most of the men telling her how to act or think. While I loveee a dark brooding male aristocrat in my historical romances, Annabelle was my favorite character. And like most historical romance, the differing social standings create the perfect environment for forbidden romance and angst as the two main characters struggle to be with each other. I love Annabelle and Sebastian’s slow-burn romance. Locked in a battle with rising passion and a will matching her own, Annabelle will learn just what it takes to topple a duke…. But he wouldn’t be the greatest strategist of the Kingdom if he couldn’t claim this alluring bluestocking without the promise of a ring…or could he? He is looking for a wife of equal standing to secure the legacy he has worked so hard to rebuild, not an outspoken commoner who could never be his duchess.

Sebastian is appalled to find a suffragist squad has infiltrated his ducal home, but the real threat is his impossible feelings for green-eyed beauty Annabelle. Her challenge: not to give in to the powerful attraction she can’t deny for the man who opposes everything she stands for. Her target: Sebastian Devereux, the cold and calculating Duke of Montgomery who steers Britain’s politics at the Queen’s command. Her charge: recruit men of influence to champion their cause. In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising women’s suffrage movement. Appeal: Adult Historical Fiction RomanceĮngland, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford.

Title: Bringing Down the Duke (A League of Extraordinary Women #1).

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