Title: The Determined Duchess
Series: Gothic Brides
Author: Erica Monroe
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: March 27, 2018
Publisher: Quillfire Publishing
ASIN: B078P37N2Q
After the death of her beloved guardian, Miss Felicity Fields is left adrift, her future uncertain. Grief-stricken, she launches a plan to use her knowledge of alchemy to build a Philosopher's Stone, and bring back to life the woman who was like a mother to her. The last thing this blunt bluestocking needs is the return of Nicholas Harding, the Duke of Wycliffe and rightful owner of her home on the wild coast of Cornwall. He stirs an unexpected passion within her, and Felicity has had enough change in her life.
When they were children, Nicholas never understood his aunt's brilliant but unemotional ward, or her many strange scientific studies. He ought to take her back to London, so she can make a proper society match--except he can't stop thinking about her. But with the line between life and death blurred by Felicity's macabre experiments, can he convince her that she's no longer alone, and her proper place is by his side?
My rating:
***copy provided by publisher through NetGalley***
This one was even worse than its predecessor.
The heroine was a cold, emotionally-stinted bitch, but without the requisite explanation as to why she was that way. I guess Ms Monroe wanted her to come across as eccentric, but the girl was just a cold, emotionally-stinted bitch. Especially once she turned her eye onto the hero as a replacement for the corpse she's been trying to resurrect for the past six months.
The hero was flat and one-dimensional, the "romance" completely nonexistent...The entire story was an utter disappointment.
1 star, Erica Monroe, freebie, gothic, historical, historical romance, regency, season greetings, short story/novella
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