![]() ![]() The loud blast inadvertently sends an approaching carriage and its riders careening through the street. Fed up, a woozy Ashmont steps outside and shoots his pistol to put an end to the kerfuffle. He’s spent the morning imbibing at his favorite pub (the owners are used to his hijinks, fond of his coin, and tolerant of his behavior), when chaos erupts. When Ten Things I Hate About the Duke begins, Ashmont is drunk and desolate after very nearly killing his best friend. Ripley and Olympia wound up falling in love and an angry Ashmont challenged Ripley to a duel. ![]() In A Duke in Shining Armor, while Ashmont got rip-roaring drunk on his wedding day, Ripley (his best man) chased after his similarly intoxicated runaway fiancée, Lady Olympia Hightower. Chase to spend more time with the dissolute and gorgeous, jilted Duke of Ashmont (dubbed ‘his Grace with the Angel Face’ by his best friends and fellow Dis-Graces, Hugh Ancaster, Duke of Ripley, and the Duke of Blackwood). While A Duke in Shining Armor, the first Difficult Dukes novel was fabulous, I couldn’t wait for Ms. ![]() Friends, Chase and Reading are a dream team. I swoon, I shake my head, I giggle…I love them – and her interpretation of these flawed heroes. Kate Reading has a flair for rakes/wild-living/flawed noblemen and I AM HERE FOR IT. ![]() Ten Things I Hate About the Dukewas easily one of my favorite books in 2020 the audio improves this already tremendous novel. ![]()
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