Like all things Tessa Dare, this book is charming, well-written, a pleasure to read. Sensuality and witty repartee fill the pages of this fast-paced story, which is made complete by the expertly developed characters and hints at future installments. Alex is an intelligent, independent heroine who is the perfect match for Chase, whose hardened heart softens as Alex reveals how much she cares for him. Even as she tries to convince him that he deserves happiness, she knows that he must marry someone of suitable rank, which excludes her.

Chase professes himself a confirmed rake who refuses to marry as self-punishment for his past actions, but Alex sees through Chase's callous fa ade to the kind and generous man inside. The witty banter of the misunderstanding is the perfect prelude for their future encounters.

Chase Reynaud mistakenly believes that Alex has come to apply for the position of governess to his two precocious wards, Daisy and Rosamund and she needs a job, so she plays along. After bumping into the effortlessly charming man of her dreams in a bookstore, Alexandra Mountbatten meets him again when calling at his London home, offering to set his clocks. In Dare's sizzling second Girl Meets Duke Regency (after The Duchess Deal), a young woman discovers that her romantic fantasies about a handsome rake are vastly different from the reality of him. Soon the walls around Chase’s heart are crumbling. But Alexandra is more than he bargained for: clever, perceptive, passionate. When a stubborn little governess tries to reform him, he decides to give her an education-in pleasure. Like any self-respecting libertine, Chase lives by one rule: no attachments. The ladies of London have tried-and failed-to make him settle down. Try telling that to their guardian, Chase Reynaud: duke’s heir in the streets and devil in the sheets. However, the girls don’t need discipline. and he’s in danger of falling, hard.He’s been a bad, bad rake-and it takes a governess to teach him a lessonĪfter her livelihood slips through her fingers, Alexandra Mountbatten takes on an impossible post: transforming a pair of wild orphans into proper young ladies.

When a stubborn little governess tries to reform him, he decides to prove he can’t be tamed. Try telling that to their guardian, Chase Reynaud. ’ Jodi PicoultĪfter her livelihood slips through her fingers, Alexandra Mountbatten takes on an impossible post: transforming a pair of wild orphans into proper young ladies. ‘Prepare to Fall in Love’Julia QuinnBridgerton, author ofĪdoredLove her writing‘I absolutely it.

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