Two Brides and a Duke: A Regency Romance Novel

Tessa Candle

Dec 2019 · Parvenues & Paramours Book 4 · Tessa Candle

About this ebook

"Regency Romance with a modern sensibility

Unique and totally relatable heroines, irresistible love interests, and a cast of family, friends and villains that thoroughly captivates. I adore Tessa Candle's books." –Ev Bishop, USA Today bestselling author.

He is back from the grave and hiding someone in a cave. Why would the duke's daughter trust such a knave?

As if returning from the dead were not taxing enough, Delville, the missing rogue heir to the Duchy of Pallensley, discovers that he is still most inopportunely engaged to a silk-sashed demoness. If he resurfaces to become a duke, she will expect her presumed dead fiancé to make good on the betrothal, and Delville would rather poke out his own eye. But he has another reason for not letting his true identity slip: he is a spy trying to discreetly rescue an abducted child from a dangerous criminal.

Things would be a lot less complicated if Lady Eleanor stopped popping up wherever she had the least business being. It is almost as though she is following him—which she probably is. He does have that effect on women. Mistaking her for a lady of the evening and kissing her does not appear to have helped matters. Yet he can hardly be blamed. It was rather dark in that cellar, after all.

Eleanor, scathingly sarcastic daughter to the Duke of Grendleridge, has a problem, and his name is Lord Auchdun. The insinuating pest follows her everywhere and cannot seem to comprehend her refusing his offer of marriage, by which he means to remove the taint of her mother’s scandalous past. Eleanor would sooner die an old maid than marry such a moralizing bacon-brain.

But evading Auchdun keeps throwing her into the company of a mysterious man who looks like a labourer, but sounds like a gentlemen—though he certainly does not act like one. When she discovers he is hiding a prisoner on her friend’s property, Eleanor has a choice: tell the Marquess of Fenimore of this skullduggery, or assist an insufferably presumptuous and probably dangerous rake in his crimes. And the kiss is of no consideration at all in the matter. Not in the least.

Two Brides and a Duke is a full length Steamy Regency Romance novel and Book 4 in the Parvenues & Paramours series. Bedroom doors wide open—but not until the characters have earned it.

You will love this book, because you crave that witty Regency dialogue but still want strong, unconventional heroines and a peek into the boudoir. Is that too much to ask? Of course not! Go get your rollicking Regency Escape now…

Ratings and reviews

Two Brides and A Duke is book 4 in the Parvenues & Paramours series by Tessa Candle. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. There are some truly hilarious moments and some nail biting, “edge of your seat” intrigue moments. It is important to read these books in order. Candle weaves an intricate tale of steamy romance and danger. I think each book gets better and better. I really liked the hero - Delville. He is not the average Regency hero. I liked his wit and edge. “He grabbed her waist and pulled her body to him, pressing his lips to hers and kissing her deeply. She tasted so sweet, like lemons and honey. The kiss was heady and a little longer than he intended. The room spun and he was breathless when he came up for air.” I enjoyed the twists and turns in this book. Characters who have been in the series all along are woven into the story as well. I hope this isn’t the end of this series. Hoping for a book 5. I was given a copy of this book.

It's been a while since book 3, but it was worth the wait. I certainly enjoyed reading this in just two days. It is at times suspenseful and at others humorous, with the highly pregnant Tilly gleefully playing matchmaker to two horrid people. Our heroine, Eleanor, at times - nearly - jumps to the wrong conclusion, but she's intelligent enough to stop and think a moment. My favorite line by Eleanor: "We [women] would not need so much protecting if it were not for men." Delville, or Mr. Dee, is quite a charmer, but as a spy he should know better than to leave a door a crack open. Yet he makes an effort to prevent the damage his error might cause. Theirs is a gently developing romance. I received a free advance copy; the thoughts expressed are my own.

About the author

Tessa Candle is a lawyer, world traveler, and author of rollicking historical regency romance. She also lays claim to the questionable distinction of being happily married to the descendant of a royal bastard.

 

Tessa writes steamy historical romances featuring heroines who stand up for themselves, the unsuspecting noblemen who fall in love with them, and all the high jinks involved in getting them together. Sexy times will ensue (doors wide open and very sexy) but not until the characters have earned it.

 

When she is not slaving over the production and release of another novel, or conducting research by reading salacious historical romances with heroines who refuse to be victims, she divides her time between gardening, video editing, traveling, and meeting the outrageous demands of her two highly entitled Samoyed dogs. As they are cute and inclined to think too well of themselves, Tessa surmises that they were probably dukes in a prior incarnation.

 

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