The Duke: A Devil's Duke Novel

by Katharine Ashe

Overview

One of Amazon's Best Romances of 2017!

“A romance that Kathleen Woodiwiss herself would be proud to have written.”—Booklist (starred)

Katharine Ashe continues her lush and sensual Devil’s Duke series with a sweeping story of unbreakable love.

Six years ago, when Lady Amarantha Vale was an innocent in a foreign land and Gabriel Hume was a young naval officer, they met . . . and played with fire. 

Now Gabriel is the dark lord known to society as the Devil’s Duke, a notorious recluse hidden away in a castle in the Highlands. Only Amarantha knows the truth about him, and she won’t be intimidated. He is the one man who can give her the answers she needs.

But Gabriel cannot let her learn his darkest secret. So begins a game of wit and desire that proves seduction is more satisfying—and much more wicked—the second time around…

“This is historical romance at its best.”—All About Romance

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062641731
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	09/26/2017
Series:	Devil's Duke Series , #3
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	281,564
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Katharine Ashe is the award-winning author of historical romances that reviewers call “intensely lush” and “sensationally intelligent,” including How to Be a Proper Lady, an Amazon Editors’ Choice for the 10 Best Books of the Year in Romance, and My Lady, My Lord and How to Marry a Highlander, 2015 and 2014 finalists for the prestigious RITA® Award of the Romance Writers of America. Her books are recommended by Publishers Weekly, Women’s World Magazine, Booklist, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Barnes & Noble, and many others, and translated into languages across the world.

Katharine lives in the wonderfully warm Southeast with her beloved husband, son, dog, and a garden she likes to call romantic rather than unkempt. A professor of European History, she writes fiction because she thinks modern readers deserve grand adventures and breathtaking sensuality too. For more about Katharine’s books, please visit her website or write to her at PO Box 51702, Durham, NC 27717.

Editorial Reviews

Likable lovers, witty dialogue, intriguing supporting characters, and a zippy pace result in a lively page-turner.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Unusually complex, and delightfully so… [this] romance will win over historical fiction readers from all corners.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Lushly written… A romance that Kathleen Woodiwiss herself would be proud to have written.” — Booklist (starred review)

“Classic sweeping romance reminiscent of Beauty and the Beast.” — RT Book Reviews (top pick)

“In its sensuality and brilliant evocation of history, this book is extraordinary and powerful.” — Thavolia Glymph, author of Out of the House of Bondage

From the Publisher

Classic sweeping romance reminiscent of Beauty and the Beast.

RT Book Reviews (top pick)

Lushly written… A romance that Kathleen Woodiwiss herself would be proud to have written.

Booklist (starred review)

In its sensuality and brilliant evocation of history, this book is extraordinary and powerful.

Thavolia Glymph

★ 2017-08-06
A devilish duke and a missionary's widow form an unlikely pair. From the age of 8, Amarantha Vale knows exactly whom she'll marry; unfortunately, at 17, she mistakenly thinks she's found him. Her engagement to the young missionary carries her across the ocean to Jamaica; it also sends her careening into the decidedly nonmissionary Lt. Gabriel Hume in the middle of her first hurricane. After a short time, just as they admit their feelings for each other, Gabe is ordered to command a ship, causing Amarantha to marry the patronizing reverend. Years later, widowed, she reverses her journey across the Atlantic in search of Gabe, now the Duke of Loch Irvine, known throughout the Scottish highlands as the Devil's Duke. Rumors abound about the possibly homicidal duke, but she doesn't believe them, and upon meeting again, the couple finds that they are both older, wiser, and still mad for each other. In a genre where love stories usually unfold over the course of a single season, this story, which begins with the couple's meeting in 1817 and ends happily in 1823, is unusually complex, and delightfully so. Ashe's (Captive Bride, 2017, etc.) thorough research enlivens corners of the Regency era unseen by London society and creates many moments for both Gabe and Amarantha to engage in small individual efforts to combat the evils of slavery and misogyny. Not that their passion is neglected; the longer-than-average story allows ample time for the bedroom, and in great detail. Readers who enjoyed the first two titles in The Devil's Duke series will be delighted to find that this entry is the best of the series so far—but new readers can jump right in. This decidedly un-English Regency romance will win over historical fiction readers from all corners.

Kirkus Reviews