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Winning Back His Duchess
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Escape to beautiful Venice for this Victorian marriage reunited story…
An invitation to Venice…
To save their marriage!
Suggesting divorce to her estranged husband, Jamie, Duke of Byson, takes all of Rose Wilkins’s courage. Years of distance and heartbreak have taken a toll—she needs a new start. But Jamie won’t hear of divorce, because of the scandal alone. His counteroffer is a trip to Venice… Might discovering Venice’s delights together rekindle the still-simmering desire that drew Rose to Jamie as a starry-eyed young American heiress?
From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.
Dollar Duchesses
Book 1: His Unlikely Duchess
Book 2: Playing the Duke's Fiancée
Book 3: Winning Back His Duchess
An invitation to Venice…
To save their marriage!
Suggesting divorce to her estranged husband, Jamie, Duke of Byson, takes all of Rose Wilkins’s courage. Years of distance and heartbreak have taken a toll—she needs a new start. But Jamie won’t hear of divorce, because of the scandal alone. His counteroffer is a trip to Venice… Might discovering Venice’s delights together rekindle the still-simmering desire that drew Rose to Jamie as a starry-eyed young American heiress?
From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.
Dollar Duchesses
Book 1: His Unlikely Duchess
Book 2: Playing the Duke's Fiancée
Book 3: Winning Back His Duchess
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“I’ve loved reading the Dollar Duchesses series by Amanda McCabe and Winning Back His Duchess is the third book in the series. Although this could be easily read as a standalone, I really recommend that you read the other two books in the series (His Unlikely Duchess and Playing the Duke’s Fiancée).
In this book we find Rose, one of the Wilkins sisters, feeling that her separation from her husband Jamie, the Duke of Byson, has reached an impasse and she feels that the only option available for them both is to get him to agree to a divorce. In the time that they have spent apart, Jamie has reflected on his behaviour as a husband, and has implemented some changes, and desperately wants his ‘American Beauty Rose’ to reconsider their life together. I loved the way this second chance romance develops as the story progresses. The love that the couple have for one another appears at first sight to be unable to move past the heartbreak that caused their initial separation, but their love for one another in spite of it all is unwavering. Can they really move past their heartbreak and take the second chance at love that they are presented with?
I loved the way the other people in their lives do their utmost to engineer the situation to place them in one another’s paths, and the unsubtle matchmaking is very entertaining. It seems clear to everyone but Rose that they belong together. Rose battles with her head and her heart.
They initially spend time together at the house of a mutual friend who has an almost bohemian collection of friends. From there, Jamie takes Rose to his ancestral home where she sees a very different Jamie interacting with the tenants and other locals. Jamie then suggests that she goes to Venice with him while he is doing some research for his studies. The time they spend in Venice is idyllic, and they get closer together as the time goes on. When a dark cloud from Rose’s past life in America arrives, it threatens to ruin everything.
I thoroughly enjoyed this story of second chances, and adored the escapism in the beautiful location of Venice, with masked balls, gondolas and romance at every turn.”
“I love a marriage in crisis story although I almost always find them too angsty, but Winning Back his Duchess was had just the right amount for a reader like me! While still a little heartbreaking at times, it was a quick read that is unique in that it takes us on journey from England to Venice. I really enjoyed the part that takes place in Venice as it was great to read about it from a historical perspective. This is the third book in a series about sisters, but the first one I’ve read and I didn’t feel lost so it makes a good standalone.
Rose and Jamie’s road back together to a HEA is slow burn and low on steam, and while I wish they would have communicated more (as it still seemed a bit unclear to me what happened between them), their love for each other was clear throughout with a beautiful epilogue!
TW: past miscarriage is discussed”
About Amanda McCabe
Amanda McCabe wrote her first romance at sixteen – an historical epic starring her friends as the characters, written secretly during algebra class! She's never since used algebra, but her books have been nominated for many awards, including the RITA Award, Booksellers Best, National Readers Choice Award and the Holt Medallion. In her spare time she loves taking dance classes and collecting travel souvenirs. Amanda lives in New Mexico. Email her at: amanda@ammandamccabe.com
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