The Dissolute Duke

by Miranda Cameron

Miss Celeste Robinson quickly came to the conviction that the Duke of Malvern was thoroughly, completely absolutely despicable, not only was this outrageously handsome, shockingly high-living gentleman notorious for his drinking, gambling, and womanizing in London, but his conduct was equally reprehensible when he returned to his estate on the channel coast of England. There, he blighted his shy sister Meg's chances for happiness by arrogantly forbidding her to see the neighboring lord she longed for, and dashed his brother Virgil's dreams of love by using his wealth and title to claim the incomparably lovely and insatiably ambitious Lady Lucretia Coulter as his own bride-to-be.
But if the duke made it so effortlessly easy for Celeste to make up her mind to despise him, he also made it devilishly difficult to convince her heart....

Genres: Romance

236 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 2, 1986

Reviews

[Spazfungus · Rating 2 out of 5]

second to last chapter was awesome (and I wish more heroines of regency romances would come right out and say what was said in this chapter) the rest of the book was ok. Malvern is the traditional regency hero, looks stern and handsome but completely useless in extracting himself out of emotional battlefields.

[Ria · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found it hard to keep reading this book, the only part that held my interest was the last two chapters of the book.

I just it slow reading, and not like of the other books by this author.

But I like the books to interesting, and a little bit of something going in at least more three chapters of the whole book.