Although Leopold and Eleanor hit it off very well from the first, both want to test the waters further before committing themselves. At present, there are only two ducal daughters unmarried and of appropriate age in England, and Leopold seeks out both.Īt a ball, he meets Lady Eleanor Lindel. He quickly realizes he needs a wife to bring up the children, and to ease their way into society, his future wife cannot be anything less than a duke’s daughter.
Because of a dishonest lawyer, Leopold lost track of where his children were, and has since rediscovered four. The novel begins well enough: Leopold Dauntry, Duke of Villiers, promised on his almost-deathbed that he would personally look after his six illegitimate children. Unfortunately, it disappointed me sadly – so badly, in fact, that I put it aside for a number of weeks because I just couldn’t be bothered to read on. So yes, this is a book I really wanted to read, and expected to love. The final volume of the Desperate Duchesses series, it was to contain the romance of the charismatic Duke of Villiers, who’d lost a fiancée to another man in Desperate Duchesses, almost died and befriended, not-quite-wooed another lady in An Affair Before Christmas, and lost a third lady to a rival in This Duchess of Mine.
Undoubtedly, A Duke of Her Own by Eloisa James was one of the most highly anticipated novels this year for me, as it was for many other readers.
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