Hazards of Dukes series

Megan Frampton’s A Wicked Bargain for the Duke is the third title in her Hazards of Dukes series and features Thaddeus Dutton, the new Duke of Hasford, a man determined to marry the perfect duchess, and Lady Lavinia Capel, who is determined to keep Thaddeus from marrying her sister. With a unique hero and a plot that doesn’t follow…

Megan Frampton’s books have always been a frustration to me.  Her plots are fun, the spirit of her writing light-hearted or at least entertainingly tropey, and her actual output not horrifically bad, and yet her stories dangle frustratingly out of DIK range for me, suffering from nonsensical plotting, a lack of special spark or poor…