The Wicked Ways of a Duke by Laura Lee Guhrke

At first I was really put off by him, but as the story progressed I really warmed up to him. He needs to marry an heiress and that’s all that matters to him. Prudence thinks he’s a true gentleman who cares for her, and he plays her and manipulates her without even a pinch of his conscience.

Cyres was a complete ass for the first half of the book. She was a realist about her situation and did her best to stay focused on the here and now, but she couldn’t help daydreaming about a better life and someone to share it with. Prudence was a down-to-earth kind of girl who wanted to be a dreamer. I almost put the book down because of my frustrations, but I’m glad I finished it. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed both characters at the end, and how glad I was to see them fall in love. However, the author really turned it around for me. Also, the hero was a complete ass for the first 1/2-3/4 of the book. I take offense to being called “plump”, which I most certainly am not (and even if I were, that’s an offensive word, IMO). In this case the author actually gave the heroine’s measurements and they’re pretty much spot-on with mine. I had some issues – namely that the heroine had major self-image issues and the author kept referring to her as “plump” when she was described as anything but.

I read and enjoyed the first book, And Then He Kissed Her, so I was looking forward to carrying on with the series. The Wicked Ways of a Duke is the second book in Laura Lee Guhrke’s Girl-Bachelor series, which is based around four working-class women who call themselves girl-bachelors. even if it means renouncing every last one of his wicked ways. But he never expected to fall for Prudence, and when his shocking deception is revealed, he will stop at nothing to win her back. He must marry an heiress, and as luck would have it, the pretty little seamstress-turned-heiress is exactly what he needs. Cyres, hides his cynicism behind a quick wit and an even quicker smile. Prudence is determined to marry for true love, and after seeing firsthand the splendid chivalry of a certain duke, only one man will do. Then she inherits a fortune from the father she's never seen, with the stipulation that she wed in one year. Surviving on a seamstress' income and a steady stream of fantasies, Prudence Bosworth has always longed for love and romance. She thought she was the luckiest woman in London.

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