A Most Improper Duchess: A Duke and Courtesan Historical Romance
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WINNER OF THE 2025 ROMANCE WRITERS OF AUSTRALIA RUBY FOR BEST HISTORICAL ROMANCE.
Vivianne Chevalier is done with dukes.
After another broken promise for a starring role on the Paris stage, the dancer and courtesan vows to walk away from it all. The viperous competition from the other dancers. The manipulations of the European nobility who only care for their own pleasures. Greedy, heartless people who want nothing more than to get ahead, no matter the cost to others. After years of failure, she craves a simple life, like the one she foolishly turned her back on when she was young.
His Grace, Arley West is familiar with the traps and trappings of a dukedom.
After all, he was not even six when he became the Duke of Osborne. The constant demands, requests for favours, false friends wanting money, and never really being sure if people respect him, or his title, are a regular part of his life. Is it any wonder he has become a grumpy recluse, only leaving his villa to attend to his parliamentary duties?
Until he finds himself travelling to Paris incognito on a research trip for Spencer and Co Travel. Disguised as a clerk, he meets the vibrant and beautiful Vivianne, and for the first time in his life, he feels as if someone might truly love him for himself.
A whirlwind romance and a proposal follow, and Arley takes his dancer fiancé back to London.
He can’t wait to tell her who he really is.
She is going to be so surprised.
After all, doesn’t every woman want to be a duchess?
A Most Improper Duchess combines the magic of Paris with London splendor. You can expect:
❤️ A duke in disguise
❤️ A Parisian ballerina
❤️ Love at first sight
❤️ Class difference
With a guaranteed HEA, A Most Improper Duchess features open-door intimacy that is HOT and often. It includes some strong language and sexy times.
This novel also contains themes of parental death, prostitution and exploitation and that some audiences may find confronting.
A Most Improper Duchess is the second book in the Tales from Honeysuckle Street series. All books in the series are loosely connected (kind of like a soap opera). They can be enjoyed as standalone reads but are best enjoyed in order.
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