Big Duke Energy

Kerrigan Byrne · Christi Caldwell · Amalie Howard · Janna MacGregor · Stacy Reid

Mar 2022 · Oliver-Heber books

About this ebook

Kerrigan Byrne and Friends Present: The Seasons of Sin 2022 Anthology Collection. In the first of four new anthologies from highly-acclaimed, award-winning, and USA Today bestselling authors, Big Duke Energy is all brand new content where beloved secondary characters are granted their second chances at long-awaited happily ever afters!

THE EARL ON THE TRAIN by Kerrigan Byrne

Sebastian Moncrieff is a villain, a traitor, and a pirate, who has recently inherited an Earldom he never wanted. As a man who’s committed every sin imaginable, he knows his only chance at redemption is the one woman who ever reached through to his soul of ice. He’s kidnapped Veronica Latimer once before and was enchanted by everything about her... This time, when he takes her, he’ll have to admit that she’s kept his heart captive since the moment they met. But can he convince her to forgive his past in order to claim a future?

LOVED AND FOUND: Christi Caldwell

Lieutenant Thaddeus Phippen has lived a lifetime away from the only love he ever knew, a powerful duke's daughter. He's now returned from fighting Boney's forces, ready to put aside tragic battlefield remembrances and the memory of past heartbreak of love lost. Or that was the plan...until Thaddeus finds himself face-to-face with the one woman he soon finds he can't ever forget... Is the divide between former lovers too great to forge a future together...or can they, at last, have a love to last a lifetime?

THE WOLF OF WESTMORE by Amalie Howard

Lord Wulfric Bane, the Duke of Westmore knows that blood is thicker than water, that duty is more important than personal desire, and that some things, like falling in love, are never meant to be. Cossetted and coddled Lady Jocelyn Capehart has been bred to be the perfect lady. On the outside, she is demure, sweet, and biddable, but on the inside, a vixen longs to break free of her cage. A chance meeting at a sultry club leads to one sinfully explosive night that neither of them can forget.

PUT UP YOUR DUKES by Janna MacGregor

Martin "Duke" Richmond bows to no one, including any duke who protests what he publishes in his sensational gossip rag, The Midnight Cryer. However, he is occasionally open to negotiation when it comes to special requests from his wife. Estranged from her husband for five years because of the incendiary gossip he prints, Amelia Richmond finds escape from her lonely existence by volunteering at a foundling home, helping society's most powerful people avoid her husband's rancor gossip, and sleeping with her husband every Wednesday. Not an entirely unwelcome chore. When Martin goes on a rampage against one of the most powerful dukes in the British Isles, Amelia must use her wit and best persuasive techniques to rein him in. When her chance for a happy marriage appears within reach, Amelia finds herself falling for him once again, which is bad...very bad.

DUKE OF EVERY SIN by Stacy Reid

Ethan Benedict, Duke of Bainbridge, has been an object of fear, fascination, and salacious gossip for years. To many, his reputation would make him an unlikely savior of a baby left on his doorstep. But Ethan saw the child as perhaps a pathway to redemption. What he did not anticipate was for his jaded heart to soften toward the mysterious young woman who infiltrates his household and secretly cares for the child.

Ratings and reviews

I enjoyed this book. This fun anthology offers up five enticing romantic tales that had me entertained, engaged and basking in the feels. Likable characters, intriguing storylines, awesome chemistry and solid writing combine into a real treat that you don't want to miss. I am posting a forthright review of my own accord.

This anthology brings together five leading historical romance authors for a collection of high-heat novellas. The writing is top-notch, and the stories are entertaining. If you're a fan of these authors, you may see some familiar characters get their HEA. I especially enjoyed "Loved and Found" by Christi Caldwell and "Put Up Your Dukes" by Janna MacGregor. If you love hot historical romance, this collection is for you. Thanks, NetGalley, for the ARC I received. This is my honest and voluntary review.

This is a steamy collection of historical novellas with scoundrels, women who were married to controlling cruel husbands and their second chance with men who show them passion, across classes romances, enemies to lovers, estranged spouses, and a marriage of convenience. There is one bdsm romance, which I don’t generally read because I don’t think physical pain is romantic. I don’t see the connection of Duke in the title as only two the stories are about a titled duke and some only had the mention of one. I liked the last story the best as it was redemption romance where the hero is a rake who was inadvertently the cause of the lady and her sister’s scandal, but he becomes a better man.