by
Amanda Weaver
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GENRE:
Historical Romance
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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.
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Excerpt:
It was
too good to be true. The heir to a duke and also unspeakably
beautiful. For so long, she’d struggled to avoid thinking about the
physical aspects of marriage, since for her, it might have involved
Sturridge or someone equally odious. But looking at Lord Dunnley, it
wasn’t at all a trial to imagine that part. Perhaps it wouldn’t
be a humiliating indignity to be endured. At the moment, surprising
as the thought was, she couldn’t imagine disliking anything about
submitting to this man’s attentions.
Then
Lord Dunnley’s fierce eyes landed on her and she couldn’t
breathe. He was so handsome, and to feel his regard on her, to see
those eyes looking straight at her, seeming nearly to look inside
her, shook her right to her core. The power of it pooled low in her
belly. She’d met her share of handsome men, but this immediate and
powerful attraction was all new. All her social training fled her as
her pulse beat frantically in her throat. As they stood locked in
some sort of unspoken communication, she was helpless to do anything
but stare at him as he stared back.
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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/
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Duchess in Name links:
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