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A Duke by Any Other Name by Grace Burrowes
4.0
Part of the Rogues to Riches series.
Lady Althea Wentworth was born into poverty. With an abusive drunkard for a father, she was forced to take her younger siblings to the streets and beg. She is no stranger to poor treatment and ridicule.
Despite having achieved success and fortune due to luck, hard work and perseverance, when her elder brother Quinn was discovered to be the last descendant of the Dukes of Walden, Althea and her family gained a title, but not the respect of the society tabbies of London.
Althea is snubbed and belittled by jealous people, even though she is kind and generous. She's finally had enough, and after enduring five years of nasty behaviour, she decides to stay at her Yorkshire estate rather than return to her family in London for the Season. Unfortunately even those in her local society treat her with disdain. She's seen as an upstart, a threat to their own social manipulations. All she wants is to fit in and at the beginning of the book she's happy to accept the scraps of their attention and even overlook their disrespect.
Althea's nearest neighbour is the reclusive and mysterious Duke of Rothhaven. Nathaniel is rarely seen other than galloping his horse across the countryside at dawn or dusk. He does not enter society and he rejects all invitations and turns away all visitors to his estate.
As the sister of a duke, Althea decides the Duke of Rothhaven is the best person to offer advice on what she's doing wrong and help her fit in. He of course, doesn't want a bar of it. The two eventually spend time together and both realise that being yourself and being happy with that is so much better than trying to contort yourself into someone else's mould.
There are reasons why Nathaniel feels he must remain a recluse. He is protecting his loved ones. In doing so, he has placed himself in a difficult situation where a future with the delightful Althea seems completely out of reach.
This book contains mildly descriptive love scenes.
Lady Althea Wentworth was born into poverty. With an abusive drunkard for a father, she was forced to take her younger siblings to the streets and beg. She is no stranger to poor treatment and ridicule.
Despite having achieved success and fortune due to luck, hard work and perseverance, when her elder brother Quinn was discovered to be the last descendant of the Dukes of Walden, Althea and her family gained a title, but not the respect of the society tabbies of London.
Althea is snubbed and belittled by jealous people, even though she is kind and generous. She's finally had enough, and after enduring five years of nasty behaviour, she decides to stay at her Yorkshire estate rather than return to her family in London for the Season. Unfortunately even those in her local society treat her with disdain. She's seen as an upstart, a threat to their own social manipulations. All she wants is to fit in and at the beginning of the book she's happy to accept the scraps of their attention and even overlook their disrespect.
Althea's nearest neighbour is the reclusive and mysterious Duke of Rothhaven. Nathaniel is rarely seen other than galloping his horse across the countryside at dawn or dusk. He does not enter society and he rejects all invitations and turns away all visitors to his estate.
As the sister of a duke, Althea decides the Duke of Rothhaven is the best person to offer advice on what she's doing wrong and help her fit in. He of course, doesn't want a bar of it. The two eventually spend time together and both realise that being yourself and being happy with that is so much better than trying to contort yourself into someone else's mould.
There are reasons why Nathaniel feels he must remain a recluse. He is protecting his loved ones. In doing so, he has placed himself in a difficult situation where a future with the delightful Althea seems completely out of reach.
This book contains mildly descriptive love scenes.