Sunday Snippet: No Duke of Mine 1

Welcome to the re-launch of Sunday Snippet posts, my favorite way to promo upcoming stories. Each week on the blog, I’ll share snippets from my work in progress or upcoming/new releases. But now for the first snippet from No Duke of Mine. Enjoy.

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���Now, Jasper. Here is a list of everything I want done while I���m away,��� Algernon Sweet murmured. ���If the weather permits, get them all done as quickly as possible. Otherwise, some of the more complicated matters can wait until my return.���

Jasper flicked through the three pages. ���Are you sure this is enough for the two weeks you���ll be away?���

���Well, there are four more pages in my desk drawer if you have too much free time,��� he complained.

Jasper glanced over at his wife, Sophie, who was waiting to bid Algernon goodbye as well, and grinned. ���No chance of that happening, now I���m a married man.���

Algernon laughed at him. Jasper was smitten, and it showed. He had liked his brother���s wife before their marriage, and now even more so.

Now that his brothers were all together at Ravenswood, it was easy to see that all his siblings were happy in their marriages, albeit in different ways. They hadn���t been in such good spirits since their childhood. But now that his brothers were settled, he had things to do without their involvement.

He had a woman to woo and marry, expenses to be repaid that were pressing on his conscience, and somewhere in there, he fervently hoped he could find some joy in his endeavors.

Making a marriage because you are forced to it for the money was quite different from choosing to do so of your own free will. His brothers had been very lucky not to have shared his burden.

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NO DUKE OF MINE

Scandalous Brides, Book 5

Algernon Sweet, Duke of Ravenswood, has a plan. Travel to London. Propose to the rich titled widow who can solve all is financial woes. Easy. Or it would be if he weren���t trapped at a country inn by rising floodwaters where he encounters a childhood friend who once read poetry to his dog and questioned him about everything under the sun. Margaret Black turned grown-up is a distraction, even more a bluestocking, and inconveniently attractive, too. When it becomes clear she needs help to reach her father, he offers a seat in his carriage���purely out of politeness, of course. And not at all because she makes him laugh like no woman ever has.

Maggie Black has never quite belonged���not in drawing rooms, not in London, and certainly not stranded at an inn with a duke. Trading stories about their very different lives and discussing books over bad stew and too much brandy late at night isn���t a good idea for a spinster traveling without a chaperone. But it���s hard to resist a man who���s both familiar and frustratingly handsome���especially when he hangs on her every word as if she were the only woman in the world. Somewhere between road delays, accidental confessions, and a scandalously intimate stop in a bookshop, Maggie finds herself falling for the one man who absolutely cannot be hers. Because dukes don���t marry poor bluestockings with a passion for books and a tendency to argue. Do they?

Available 7 October, 2025

 

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