The Duke’s Guard: The men in black who have sworn an oath to protect the Duke of Wyndmere and his family from enemies that would stop at nothing to discredit and destroy him!
Fenton Flaherty meets his destiny in the Mermaid’s Glass tavern…
He has no intention of marrying until sees the raven-haired, curvaceous, blue-eyed beauty serving ale in the tavern. He pours on the legendary Flaherty charm. She ignores him, smiling at one of the wreckers. Stunned by the snub, and her preference for a man known to kill to claim a floundering ship’s cargo, he speaks without thinking, inadvertently impugning her honor.
Smuggler’s daughter Eileen Doonan doesn’t know how to react to Flaherty’s charm…
Eileen’s apple shape once made her a target, until she developed generous curves. The night an auburn-haired, blue-eyed giant strides into the tavern where she works changes everything. She doesn’t know how to respond to his flirtation, and ignores him to smile at one of the patrons. Unfortunately, he is a wrecker, someone she normally avoids. When gossip and innuendo ensues, she blames Flaherty.
On the beach during a thunderstorm, while aiding her father, she glances up to see a man running for his life and watches him jump off the cliffs into the sea. When he surfaces and smashes face-first into the rocks, she dives into the storm-tossed waves to rescue him.
Between the rumors, and his worry that someone will see her on the beach with her clothing plastered to her body, her father insists Flaherty marry her to save her reputation. At first she refuses, until Flaherty apologizes with a kiss that burns hotter than their passionate dislike for one another. A kiss that changes everything!
But a sharpshooter lies in wait for him, and news of Flaherty’s disappearance changes to the news that he has been shot and feared dead!
Will it take the death of the man who, when made aware of his grievous error, offers the protection of his name, his strength, his honor, and his heart before she realizes that Flaherty was the only man who truly valued her for what is inside of her, and not just her curves?
Danger stalks in the night, but it will have to get past The Duke’s Blade before he will let harm come to those he has sworn to protect with his strength, his heart, and his honor.
Your Favorite Tropes (and C.H.’s):
- Hero to the Rescue
- Hardheaded Heroes
- Feisty Heroines
- Smugglers and Wreckers
- Heroine Rescues the Hero
- Marriage of Convenience
- Second Chances
- Forced Proximity
- Different Classes
- Happily Ever After
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Blazing hearts battle between the beauty and the ugly duckling.
Called the most beautiful woman of the ton, Helen Honeyfield managed to escape an unwanted marriage when caught in the embrace of ugly duckling Liam Rendell. When he realized he had been tricked by the woman he’d yearned for, he vowed to one day get revenge.
Now the Earl of Fenwick, Liam has experienced a lifetime of ridicule, not only by the ton, but by his late father as well. His best revenge is ruining the reputation of the title, his father’s truest love. He stumbles across a most interesting opportunity: Helen’s father is selling his failing textile mill. Lord Fenwick jumps at the chance to buy it, knowing the ton will ridicule an earl in industry, but also that it will hurt the earldom financially. The title his late father revered will never be the same. But Liam gets more than he bargains for when he learns the mill’s women workers are organizing. And they’ve asked Miss Honeyfield to be their union representative.
At her sister’s plea, Helen agrees to be the workers’ representative, believing it will be easy to convince meek Lord Fenwick to comply to their demands. Though she isn’t exactly pleased to have to be around the odd man. But as time ticks by, both wonder if they’ve been wrong about the other. Helen always seemed to crave attention, but a reserved side emerges. Liam seemed timid but is blooming in his unusual new role. Though their magnetic pull becomes impossible to deny, love can never exist between a union representative and a factory owner.
Tropes you’ll love:
- Enemies to lovers
- Ugly duckling
- Unrequited love
- Brooding hero
- Take-charge heroine
- Spinster
- Opposites attract
- Second chance
Note: This series is part of Dragonblade’s Sweet Dreams line, so this is a sweet, wholesome Historical Romance where passion beyond the bedroom door is left to the reader’s imagination.
