Duke
du Jour
by
Petie
McCarty
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GENRE:
Regency
Time-Travel Romance
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BLURB:
..a
reverse Kate and Leopold...a light-hearted time travel romance where
a bewildered modern-day duke ends up in Regency England and meets the
girl of his dreams...
Jared Langley, present-day Duke of Reston, tumbles into an abandoned fountain on his ducal estate and travels back in time to the year 1816. There, Reston servants and local villagers think him a dead ringer for his namesake and rakehell ancestor--the seventh Duke of Reston, gone missing at the Battle of Waterloo. Unfortunately, Seven got mixed up with French spies out to assassinate the Duke of Wellington, and an unwary Jared ends up in their crosshairs.
Lady Ariana Hart has loved Jared Langley, the seventh Duke of Reston, since she was twelve years old, until the night the rogue broke her heart. Given up for dead, her rakish neighbor makes a miraculous return from Waterloo--only Jared shows up a changed man and reignites all the feelings Ariana had long ago buried.
Jared is in a race against time. He must waylay the suspicions of his quirky servants and neighbors, get to Wellington before the French spies do, fix his fountain--before Seven shows up--so Jared has a way home, and definitely not fall in love with the irresistible Lady Ariana.
Jared Langley, present-day Duke of Reston, tumbles into an abandoned fountain on his ducal estate and travels back in time to the year 1816. There, Reston servants and local villagers think him a dead ringer for his namesake and rakehell ancestor--the seventh Duke of Reston, gone missing at the Battle of Waterloo. Unfortunately, Seven got mixed up with French spies out to assassinate the Duke of Wellington, and an unwary Jared ends up in their crosshairs.
Lady Ariana Hart has loved Jared Langley, the seventh Duke of Reston, since she was twelve years old, until the night the rogue broke her heart. Given up for dead, her rakish neighbor makes a miraculous return from Waterloo--only Jared shows up a changed man and reignites all the feelings Ariana had long ago buried.
Jared is in a race against time. He must waylay the suspicions of his quirky servants and neighbors, get to Wellington before the French spies do, fix his fountain--before Seven shows up--so Jared has a way home, and definitely not fall in love with the irresistible Lady Ariana.
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Excerpt:
“Do
you remember me?” Ariana asked quickly before she lost her nerve.
Jared's
expression grew chagrined, and her stomach plummeted. She had hoped,
for but a moment. In the next instant, she received the greatest
shock of all.
He
stepped so close only inches separated them. “But I wanted to
remember you,” he said softly. “I wanted to know you right
away—the moment I laid eyes on you.”
Her
lips parted in surprise. With no prior memory, he had finally noticed
her as a woman?
He
stared into her eyes. “I feel drawn to you…Ari.”
His
voice turned low and husky when he breathed her name, and the sound
drifted over her like a lover’s caress. His pupils dark as night,
he slowly leaned in. His lips nuzzled hers, softly at first and then
with more pressure. His hand cradled her cheek, and her skin tingled
with the heat of his touch.
Ari
fought the initial urge to flinch at the touch of his lips, so
startled was she, and he swept a muscular arm around her back to hold
her steady—or bind her in place. She was not sure which, and she
didn’t really care. And if she was completely truthful with
herself, she had wanted this for a very long time.
Having
had but one prior kiss in her life—and that a quick peck on the
lips stolen by Baron Dalton, and only a peck, because she had jerked
back in shock—Ari was unprepared for the riot of emotions flooding
through her. Joy, anticipation, shock, and yes, hunger for something
instinctive and quite beyond her reach.
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Review: Ok, I have to admit the cover of this book pulled me in. Please tell me I'm not the only one that thinks our Duke in the picture looks like David Hasselhoff back when he was in Knight Rider?
I really love time travel novels and when the time travel involves regency England, that makes things even better for me. I also liked that it was the hero that took the tumble through time. A wronged Duke from the present falling in fountain and ending up in 1816. That's really perfect. Add to that, him being mistaken for his ancestor and you have a really great story.
Lady Ari was a wonderful heroine as well.
The writing was really wonderful and it was fun read. I look forward to the next book in this series.
Rating: 4 flowers
AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
Petie
spent a large part of her career working at Walt Disney World -- "The
Most Magical Place on Earth" -- where she enjoyed working in the
land of fairy tales by day and creating her own romantic fairy tales
by night, including her new series, The Cinderella
Romances. She eventually said good-bye to her "day" job to
write her stories full-time. These days Petie spends her time
writing sequels to her regency time-travel series, Lords in Time, and
her cozy-mystery-with-elements-of-romantic-suspense series, the
Mystery Angel Romances.
Petie
shares her home on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee with her
horticulturist husband, a spoiled-rotten English Springer spaniel
addicted to pimento-stuffed green olives, and a noisy Nanday conure
named Sassy who made a cameo appearance in Angel
to the Rescue.
Visit
Petie's web site online at http://www.petiemccarty.com
or her Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/petie.mccarty.
BIO
Social Media:
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GIVEAWAY
INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE:
Petie
McCarty will be awarding 3 ebook copies of Betting on Cinderella by
Petie McCarty
(US
and International) to three randomly drawn winners via rafflecopter
during the tour.
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