TITLE: An Heiress for August
AUTHOR: Kathleen Ayers
SERIES: The Rake Review
SERIES ORDER: 8 of 12
RELEASE DATE: 8/1/2024
GENRE: Regency Romance
RATING: ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
BLURB:
London’s most notorious rake needs to wed.
August Wade was never meant to be the Duke of Courtland. Now he’s inherited the title from his uncle along with the poorly managed ducal estates. After months of attempting to remedy the situation, August concludes that he must wed an heiress. Specifically, Miss Hazel Dartmont, only child of an obnoxiously wealthy textile merchant. Not only is Miss Dartmont wealthy, but she is several years on the shelf and far beneath him socially. She will be thrilled to draw the attention of a duke. Desperate, even.
Miss Hazel Dartmont is an expert at avoiding marriage.
Hazel only accepted the invitation to Lady Talbot’s house party to escape London and the attentions of an overly amorous gentleman. As a wealthy heiress, albeit one with a pedigree most of society turns their noses up at, Hazel is accustomed to being targeted by every desperate dandy in London. Now well past marriageable age, Hazel delights in her independence and has no intention of ever taking a husband.
Not even the rakish Duke of Courtland can change her mind.
An Heiress for August is book 8 in the multi-author series The Rake Review. If you enjoy watching some of London's most notorious scoundrels getting raked over the coals, then be sure to collect all twelve bachelors in The Rake Review!
MY REVIEW:
DISCLAIMER: I voluntarily read and reviewed an advance copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
An Heiress in August is a wonderful addition to The Rake Review series! I absolutely loved August and Hazel The story begins when August and Hazel are children. August is perceived as a bully and Hazel does not like him at all! Then the story time jumps to when August and Hazel are older and meet again, and sparks fly! I loved their banter! I loved watching them fall in love! I really loved watching August struggle with his feelings and his sense of duty as he fell in love with Hazel.
Thank you Kathleen, Amy and the Brazen Belles for the advance copy!