Sunday Snippet: No Duke of Mine #2

Welcome back for Sunday Snippet and part 2 from No Duke of Mine. Happy Reading.

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���Your Grace,��� Nash called as he ran into the entrance hall. ���One quick question. Do you mind if I borrow the globe for the children���s lessons?���

He sighed in relief that his request was nothing serious. ���No, I do not mind.���

���Good, good. It���ll be back in its place by the time you return, I promise.���

Algernon highly doubted that. Everything that went through his brother���s new apartment seemed to never come back immediately. There was always some excuse for taking a book from the library again, and some reason for the delay in its return.

Nash was determined that all of his children were properly educated on every matter under the sun, but thankfully, his wife was prone to ferrying the children outside when something did not come naturally to one of them. The young family played a great deal, for which he was grateful and proud. Algernon had a hand in making Nash and Laura get along again, and much better than before.

���Your Grace, you are late leaving,��� Laura Sweet, his sister-in-law, complained with a smile on her lips and an hourglass in her hand. ���Your carriage has been standing outside for the last fifteen minutes, and your men and horses are growing restless out there.���

Lady Laura Sweet often commented about his tardy behavior, which he probably deserved. He���d harassed her to sit and fix her marriage to Nash, and now she felt justified in bossing him about.

But she was right. He���d dragged his feet more in the last six months making this decision since inheriting the title than he had in his entire life. He held up his hands in mock surrender rather than admit that out loud. ���I���m going, I���m going.���

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You can read last week’s snippet here and come back for more of No Duke of Mine next Sunday.

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 his 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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