Put
up Your Duke
Dukes Behaving Badly #2
Dukes Behaving Badly #2
By: Megan Frampton
Releasing June 30, 2015
Avon
Blurb
He
was once happily bedding and boxing, but in the newest DUKES BEHAVING BADLY
novel, Nicholas Smithfield has inherited a title and a bride…
To
keep his estate afloat, the new Duke of Gage must honor an agreement to marry
Lady Isabella. Stunningly beautiful, utterly tempting,
she’s also a bag of wedding night nerves, so Nicholas decides to wait to do his
duty-even if it means heading to the boxing saloon every day to punch away his
frustration.
Groomed
her whole life to become the perfect duchess Isabella longs for independence, a
dream that is gone forever. As her husband, Nicholas can do whatever he
likes-but, to Isabella’s surprise the notorious rake instead begins a gentle
seduction that is melting every inch of her reserve, night by night…
To
his utter shock, Nicholas’s discovers that none of his previous exploits were
half as pleasurable as wooing his own wife. But has the realm’s most
disreputable Duke found the one woman who can bring him to his knees-and leave
him there?
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Author Info
Megan Frampton writes historical romance under her own
name and romantic women’s fiction as Megan Caldwell. She likes the color black,
gin, dark-haired British men, and huge earrings, not in that order. She lives
in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband and son.
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Excerpt
mouth, he
leaned forward and pressed those lips against hers.
His fingers
moved to behind her ear, holding her gently in place. His mouth felt warm and
delicious, and she imagined she could feel the contact of his lips all over his
body, even though they were only touching in—one, two, three places. Their
mouths, his fingers behind her ear, his thigh pressed against hers.
How was one
supposed to breathe? She didn’t want to exhale from her nostrils onto his face,
since that seemed like it would be unpleasant, and she couldn’t exactly breathe
with her mouth, since it was otherwise occupied.
Thankfully,
it seemed that he had to breathe as well, since he disengaged and drew back for
just a moment, giving her enough time to draw a deep breath, before returning
his mouth to hers.
Only
now—now it felt as though his lips were parting, and she could feel his breath
in her mouth, only it didn’t seem odd at all. It felt as though they were
joined together in just that one spot, breathing the same air, almost the same
person.
Except that
he was a very tall, very charming, apparently-very-conversant-with-such-matters
duke, while she was a not as tall, very polished, but
not-very-aware-of-anything-that-might-happen-between-a-man-and-a-woman duchess.
He drew
back again, but only just barely. She felt her insides flutter as his eyes met
hers. “You haven’t been kissed before.”
It wasn’t a
question, but instead of the sharp, irked feeling she got when her mother said
such things, she felt as though he’d spotted something about her no one else
ever had. That no one else had ever gotten close enough to know.
That no one
had been privileged to know before.
“No,” she
said, shaking her head a tiny fraction.
An almost
arrogant smile came across that mouth, and she felt her own mouth start to curl
up in response.
“Is that
some sort of thing men like? To be the first one a lady has kissed?” she asked,
startled by her own boldness. Not to mention her own ability to form a
sentence, given how fluttery she felt.
Review: There's so much to love about Put Up Your Duke, let me count the ways.
1. The cover is droolworthy.
2. It's part of a series, but can be read as a stand alone novel.
3. Medium heat level, which I like because I'm a little bit tired of the bodice rippers.
4. A fun plot that keeps you reading. Not knowing you could become a Duke as well as an arranged marriage you didn't know about make for some fun reading.
5.Fun, witty dialogue.
All in all, a historical that is very easy to love.
Rating: 4 flowers
2 comments:
I was quite charmed by this story, and it was refreshing that the focus wasn't in the bedroom right? I am enjoying this authors style of writing, it fun and easy going.
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