Diamonds in the Rough series

Sophie Barnes’ Diamonds in the Rough series continues with the sensual but imperfect The Illegitimate Duke, about two society wallflowers who find love in a deeper place. Lady Juliette Matthews, raised from a nightmarish and slavish poverty to her second London season thanks to the death of a distant relative which promoted her brother to…

My reading resolutions for 2017 included trying some new authors and reading more historical romances, a genre that is my first love but has been neglected of late. Accordingly when the opportunity came up to review Sophie Barnes’ new historical romance A Most Unlikely Duke, I decided to take the chance on this new-to-me author….