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    Waking Up With the Duke
    Waking Up With the Duke
    Waking Up With the Duke
    Audiobook9 hours

    Waking Up With the Duke

    Written by Lorraine Heath

    Narrated by Anne Flosnik

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    About this audiobook

    “Lorraine Heath’s books are always magic.”
    —Cathy Maxwell

    “She writes the most powerfully moving love stories in romance today.”
    —Jill Barnett

    “Heath steals your heart, then takes you on a journey that will leave you torn between tears and joy.”
    —Christina Dodd

    Meet London’s Greatest Lovers! New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath’s delights and enchants, moves and mesmerizes historical romance readers with Waking Up With the Duke, the third installment in her unforgettable series in which the rakish sons of a scandalous Dowager Duchess, discover passion, pleasure, and true love. Perfect for Lisa Kleypas and Liz Carlyle fans, Waking Up With the Duke transports readers back to Victorian England, where a dangerous passion is born when a handsome rogue nobleman is approached with a most unusual request…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateAug 26, 2014
    ISBN9780062357571
    Waking Up With the Duke
    Author

    Lorraine Heath

    Lorraine Heath always dreamed of being a writer. After graduating from the University of Texas, she wrote training manuals, press releases, articles, and computer code, but something was always missing. When she read a romance novel, she not only became hooked on the genre, but quickly realized what her writing lacked: rebels, scoundrels, and rogues. She’s been writing about them ever since. Her novels have been recognized with numerous industry awards and have appeared on the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists.

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    • 5/5
      Lovely story. This is my second time of reading this book and I can’t believe how much I enjoyed it. Their love was beautiful to see and I had tears in my eyes sometimes. Lorraine is a great author.
      I have upgraded my review from 4 to 5 stars ?

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    • 5/5
      I liked the dichotomy between who she thought he was (an unrepentant rake) and who his thoughtfulness revealed him to be. Very tender love story
    • 4/5
      This historical romance had a really good plot and an interesting ending but the action in the beginning was so slow with the characters mentally analyzing everything. I skimmed a lot. Lady Jayne's disabled husband wants her to have a child by his friend the Duke of Ainsley.
    • 3/5
      What an intriguing plot! Lord Walfort is paralyzed from injuries suffered in a carriage accident. The carriage was driven by his best friend the Duke of Ainsley, a rich, handsome expert in the art of lovemaking. Walfort's wife, Lady Jayne, hates Ainsley for crippling her husband with his drunk driving and ruining her life. Believing that a having a baby would make Jayne happy, and unable to do the deed himself, Walfort persuades Ainsley to spend a month with his wife in hopes of impregnating her. Jayne doesn't like the idea but decides that she'll undergo any suffering to get a child and to make her husband happy.

      Ainsley, in turns out, has always been attracted to Jayne but never dared act upon his urges. Now, he has permission, but Jayne is determined not to enjoy herself.

      From this beginning, lots of things could have happened but most of them didn't. Ainsley turns out to be a paragon, not a rake. Jayne falls in love with him, and Walfort proves to be not quite such a perfect husband as Jayne had believed.Then he conveniently dies. Every single potential problem or obstacle is overcome with such surprising ease that there is just no drama.

      It was an enjoyable enough, but disappointing, read.