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A spicy, tantalising recommendation: My Darling Duke by Stacy Reid.

I highly recommend this My Darling Duke. You’ll find a heroine who pretends to be engaged to a duke holed up in Scotland. She thinks he’s a misanthrope, but really he’s in a wheelchair. When the grumpy duke summons her, she’ll have no choice but to… “cure” him :-))))

These writers fill me with gratitude

Courtney Milan, Suzanne Enoch, Roberta Ciuffi. These writers fill me with gratitude. They join Quick and Balogh in my heart. Together they make up my personal pantheon of “Period Romance writers with brio.” It’s not just the pleasure of comedy, but of high-concept plotting, brilliant dialogue, and social and psychological wit.

A historical romance with a fake engagement

This historical romance with a fake engagement runs on one idea: there’s no pleasure in suffering. Not all these writers have everything, but they all share the same underlying positivity, the same optimism, the same belief. Joining them all is Stacy Reid, who in My Darling Duke is absolutely brilliant. Sharp and entertaining, but not only that.

A spirited Scottish period romance

A spirited Scottish period romance where the feelings and the romance itself are fully satisfying. You live the love story to the hilt.

A Beauty and the Beast retelling

This Beauty and the Beast retelling is wonderful in every sense. In My Darling Duke, you live the love story to the hilt. Five stars, but for reading pleasure it deserves twenty. So we’re putting it in our very own Top Ten.

Un consiglio sfizioso e pepato: Mio Amato Duca di Stacy Reid.

Queste narratrici mi riempiono di riconoscenza.

Un romanzo rosa storico con finto fidanzamento

Romance scozzese d’epoca con brio

Un retelling de La bella e la bestia