Primrose and the Dreadful Duke

Emily Larkin

Jan 2018 · Garland Cousins Book 1 · Emily Larkin

About this ebook

A double-award-winning Regency romance featuring an irrepressible duke, a bookish spinster, a devious murderer … and a dash of magic!

 

Oliver Dasenby is the most infuriating man Primrose Garland has ever known. He may be her brother’s best friend, but he has an atrocious sense of humor. Eight years in the cavalry hasn’t taught him solemnity, nor has the unexpected inheritance of a dukedom.

But when Oliver inherited his dukedom, it appears that he also inherited a murderer.

Oliver might be dreadfully annoying, but Primrose doesn’t want him dead. She’s going to make certain he survives his inheritance—and the only way to do that is to help him catch the murderer!

 

Length: Full-length novel of 85,000 words

Sensuality level: A Regency romance with steamy love scenes

 

From USA TODAY Bestseller Emily Larkin comes a new addition to the acclaimed and multi-award-winning Baleful Godmother series!

Winner of the 2019 Romance Writers of New Zealand Long Romance of the Year Award

Winner of the 2019 Romance Writers of New Zealand Best Overall Romance of the Year Award

 

If you love wildly entertaining, emotional, and heartwarming historical romances that will keep you reading all night long, then this novel is for you.

Be swept into a Regency England brimming with passion and peril, magic and love. Start this addictive series today!

Ratings and reviews

Once again Emily writes likeable characters which makes this book a joy to read. Not sure how the duke could be described as dreadful, but deliberately boring all the women who are attempting to marry his title is certainly worth an eye roll. I have read all the books in the series and whilst this works as a standalone the others are also worth reading. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

What an entertaining book. From smiling and laughing to suspense and sitting on the edge of my seat. I could not put this book down. I loved Primrose and Oliver. When i read the book, I realized the title was a play on words. There were moments that both of them made me laugh out loud and then the next page I was wide eyed holding my breath. There was a lot of action. Someone was trying to kill Oliver who just inherited a dukedom with a large fortune. At a house party there was a few young ladies vying for Oliver's attention to be his duchess. But when unfortunate accidents happened to some of the ladies, Primrose and Oliver were all over the mystery and was trying to solve it. At the same time Rhodes Primrose's brother and Oliver's best friend was helping trying to discover who was trying to push him out of the way and who was responsible for the attempted murder of Oliver. Primrose and Oliver's romance was not the only one. There was Oliver's only cousin Ninian who was a gentle shy man who was enamored of a shy gentle young lady. They made the perfect couple. An excellent book. I highly recommend. Reasons I enjoyed this book: Action-packed Entertaining Funny Page-turner Romantic Steamy Tragic Unpredictable Whimsical Witty Wonderful characters

Oliver and Primrose have known each other since childhood; this familiarity makes both more keenly aware of the other's idiosyncrasies and provides the opportunity for delightfully humorous conversations which had me grinning a good deal. The first chapter introduces us to Primrose's magical talent, the second to Oliver's amusing private rating game which helps him get through his encounters with husband-hunting debutantes. Then things get a bit more serious at a house party, where they try to determine who is trying to kill Oliver. I loved the h and H and the "awakening" that slowly blossoms between them.

About the author

Emily Larkin is the award-winning and USA Today bestselling author of the Baleful Godmother historical romance series, a series that readers are calling “sexy, unusual and vastly entertaining,” and "ridiculously wonderful."

When not reading or writing, Emily can be found hiking—preferably somewhere off the beaten track. She loves to travel, and has lived in Sweden, backpacked in Europe and North America, and traveled overland in the Middle East, China, and North Africa. Her varied career includes stints as a field assistant in Antarctica and a waitress on the Isle of Skye.

Emily writes historical romances as Emily Larkin and fantasy novels as Emily Gee. She has won multiple awards in New Zealand and Australia and has been a finalist in the Romance Writers of America RITA award, as well as the National Readers Choice, Booksellers Best, and Sir Julius Vogel awards.