Forever Her Duke
Scarlett Scott
Historical Regency
Vivi, the Duchess of Bradford, loved her husband from the day they first met. She was an unabashed hoyden. He was the heir to a dukedom and her older brother’s best friend. She vowed to marry him, but she never could have imagined just how dreadfully that youthful promise would go awry, shattering her hope for a future.
Having spent the past year in England while the duke has been abroad, she has thrown herself into a cause that won’t lead to more sorrow. She’s content with her growing circle of friends in the Lady’s Suffrage Society and is doing her utmost to banish the Duke of Bradford from her heart and mind for good.
Until she discovers she has an unexpected guest at her country house party, and it’s the husband who left her. Not only is he back, but Court is far more sinfully handsome than she remembered, and he wants the one thing she isn’t prepared to give—her complete and utter surrender.
Uncaged Review: This is a shorter read, one I finished in a couple hours. A beautiful second chance story of two people torn apart from guilt, and brought back together with love. After a year of a self-imposed exile after his wedding to Vivi, Court returns to his ancestral home and to Vivi, to find her angry and cold toward him and a two week house party that Vivi has planned. But Court is determined to win over his wife and the two will need to find a way to move beyond the past to look to the future.
This is a shorter book, and I would have loved to see more interaction between the two of them with them finding their way back to each other, and I think the author could have really elaborated a bit more, especially during the house party. This is a fun, spicy romance and I have to say, I even laughed a couple times at Court’s musings. And that swan….
Reviewed by Cyrene
4 Stars
