Their shared appetite for risky intimacy isn’t sated by repeated encounters, and Lockwood realizes that regardless of Nellie's reputation, she's the future duchess he needs-but Nellie isn’t willing to give up her freedom. As Lockwood begins one last attempt to find a duchess to take home before it's too late to save his family's dukedom, somehow he keeps finding his way back to Nellie instead. Not that she minds-Nellie prefers to be single, free to take lovers when she pleases and to spend her time getting around the Comstock laws to share information about family planning and contraception with other women. The daughter of a railroad tycoon, her fortune could make her a potential match, but her reputation is checkered, to say the least. (They all ended up engaged to their love matches instead, but still.) At this point, he can’t help wondering if it's a coincidence that they're all close friends with Miss Nellie Young and if she’s the cause of his misfortune, since they had an amorous midnight encounter by the ocean just before his third engagement fell through. But by now Lockwood has been connected to and then dumped by not one, not two, but three women. Most broke English aristocrats who sail into New York, looking for an heiress who will trade her fortune to be made a duchess, end up with their pick of eligible debutantes. A jilted duke finally finds the heiress he needs but not where he expects.Īnyone would feel bad for the Duke of Lockwood.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |