Download the entire issue for the Kindle or Nook. This article was originally published in the November 2018 issue of BookPage. This curl-up-and-enjoy read includes a mystery-who set Quinn up for certain death?-as well as intriguing family members who definitely deserve their own stories. Both Quinn and Jane soon discover they delight each other in the bedroom, but they must learn trust and compromise to build a real life together. When they begin to live together as husband and wife, Burrowes delves into the heart of the marriage-of-convenience trope: the physical and romantic tension created by a sudden intimacy between two people who are still essentially strangers. He offers Jane an annulment, but she’s willing to stick by her vows.

Then at the last second, Quinn unexpectedly inherits a dukedom and is pardoned. She discovered romance novels in junior high and has been reading them. Grateful to this man she’s barely met, Jane agrees, and they marry. Grace Burrowes grew up in central Pennsylvania and is the sixth of seven children. Facing execution for a crime he didn’t commit, wealthy banker Quinn Wentworth proposes marriage to minister’s daughter Jane Winston, saving her from poverty and also providing an escape from her sanctimonious father. Burrowes has spent her career rejecting the rosy, musty myths of the Regency, and My One and Only Duke is her most vivid, compelling portrait of the era yet.' BookPage, 'Best Books of 2018' 'Sexy heroes, strong heroines, intelligent plots, enchanting love stories.Grace Burrowes's romances have them all. Two people in desperate straits save each other in the latest historical by Grace Burrowes, My One and Only Duke.

My One and Only Duke by Grace Burrowes