A
Duchess in Name
by
Amanda Weaver
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GENRE:
Historical Romance
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BLURB:
Victoria
Carson never expected love. An American heiress and graduate of Lady
Grantham's finishing school, she's been groomed since birth to marry
an English title--the grander the better. So when the man chosen for
her, the forbidding Earl of Dunnley, seems to hate her on sight, she
understands that it can't matter. Love can have no place in this
arrangement.
Andrew
Hargrave has little use for his title, and even less for his cold,
disinterested parents. Determined to make his own way, he's devoted
to his life in Italy, working as an archaeologist. Until the collapse
of his family's fortune drags him back to England, to a marriage he
never wanted and a woman he doesn't care to know.
Wild
attraction is an unwanted complication for them both, though it forms
the most fragile of bonds. Their marriage of convenience isn't so
intolerable after all--but it may not be enough when the deception
that bound them is finally revealed.
Excerpt:
“Goodnight,
Miss Carson.”
“Goodnight,
Your Lordship.”
He held
onto her hand for a beat too long, that delicious roughness of his
palm heating hers. Her stomach erupted in butterflies. Utter romantic
nonsense. It was a handshake. She glanced up at his face and their
eyes met. The butterflies vanished and her stomach dropped clean to
her feet. Her feet were rooted in place, but her body swayed
slightly, as if being tugged toward him by an invisible thread. A
muscle in his cheek twitched. Then, to her shock, he leaned in and
kissed her cheek.
Her skin
warmed beneath his lips and a delicious tingle shot down the back of
her neck. It was only a moment, a brush of his lips against her
cheek, but it heated her all the way down to the soles of her feet.
Well, there was her answer about his touch. That tiny kiss was
ricocheting through her body, laying waste to her good sense.
He drew
back two scant inches, his eyes meeting hers in the dull gold glow of
the gaslight wall sconces behind her. She could feel his breath on
her mouth. There was only his beautiful, strong face and those
shockingly blue eyes and his lips, which had made her feel so much at
the slightest touch. She swayed toward him again. His eyelids
lowered, his gaze dropping to her mouth.
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AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
Amanda
has loved romance since she read that very first Kathleen E.
Woodiwiss novel at fifteen. After a long detour into a career as a
costume designer in theatre, she’s found her way back to romance,
this time as a writer.
A native
Floridian, Amanda transplanted to New York City many years ago and
now considers Brooklyn home, along with her husband, daughter, two
cats, and nowhere near enough space.
Contact
Me:
Website:
http://www.amandaweavernovels.com/
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/AWeaverWrites
Pinterest:
https://www.pinterest.com/AWeaverWriter/
A
Duchess in Name links:
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