The chemistry between Lockwood and Nellie is sizzling Shupe has outdone herself again in bringing to life the rough-and-ready attraction between her two main characters. This is a satisfying conclusion to Shupe’s Fifth Avenue Rebels series, especially as no reader could fail to feel sympathy for Lockwood by now. Their shared appetite for risky intimacy isn’t sated by repeated encounters, and Lockwood realizes that regardless of Nellie's reputation, she's the future duchess he needs-but Nellie isn’t willing to give up her freedom.
As Lockwood begins one last attempt to find a duchess to take home before it's too late to save his family's dukedom, somehow he keeps finding his way back to Nellie instead. Not that she minds-Nellie prefers to be single, free to take lovers when she pleases and to spend her time getting around the Comstock laws to share information about family planning and contraception with other women. The daughter of a railroad tycoon, her fortune could make her a potential match, but her reputation is checkered, to say the least.
(They all ended up engaged to their love matches instead, but still.) At this point, he can’t help wondering if it's a coincidence that they're all close friends with Miss Nellie Young and if she’s the cause of his misfortune, since they had an amorous midnight encounter by the ocean just before his third engagement fell through. But by now Lockwood has been connected to and then dumped by not one, not two, but three women. Most broke English aristocrats who sail into New York, looking for an heiress who will trade her fortune to be made a duchess, end up with their pick of eligible debutantes. And when his beautiful rebel finds an unconventional cause, Lockwood has to decide if he's willing to sacrifice everything to keep her.A jilted duke finally finds the heiress he needs but not where he expects.Īnyone would feel bad for the Duke of Lockwood. Their secret affair turns scorching, far more than either expected. This uptight duke is far more than he lets on, and she can't resist him. The last thing he needs is another scandal.Įxcept Nellie sees through Lockwood's charade, straight to the real man underneath.
While in New York he's the perfect gentleman, and no one knows he's suppressing his darkest desires. To save his estate, the proper Duke of Lockwood must marry the perfect bride-wealthy, with an unblemished reputation. Now she dedicates herself to hedonistic pleasures only, like kissing a handsome stranger in the ocean under the moonlight. To escape the shackles of marriage, Nellie Young purposely ruined her reputation a long time ago. By beloved USA Today bestselling author Joanna Shupe, the fourth installment in the Fifth Avenue Rebels series about a secret affair between a free-spirited heiress and an uptight duke which turns more passionate than either could have imagined.
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