How to Love a Duke in Ten Days by Kerrigan Byrne

Now, with her family nearing bankruptcy, Alexandra strikes upon a solution: Get married to one of the empire’s most wealthy eligible bachelors. But nobody would ever expect that she has darkness in her past – one that she pays a blackmailer to keep buried. You can read the rest of this review at AudioGals.įamed and brilliant, Lady Alexandra Lane has always known how to look out for to herself. Sure, we didn’t get into his head in any of the earlier books, and maybe my memory is at fault, but the Carlton Morley in this book doesn’t bear much of a resemblance to the tightly controlled, uncompromising and hard-nosed copper I recall appearing in books one and two.

I’m convinced the series was originally conceived as a trilogy the later books were pretty disappointing (with book six, The Duke With the Dragon Tattoo basically being a rehash of book one, The Highwayman, still, to my mind, the best of the series), and in those books, there was what appeared to be a gradual retconning of Morley’s character going on as the author started to drop hints of his being a Batman-style vigilante with a tragic past. Well, five years later, here it is A Dark and Stormy Knight is the seventh and final(?) book in the series and… well, I can’t say it lived up to my expectations. Note: There may be spoilers for the earlier books in the series in this review.īack in 2015/6 when I reviewed the first two books in Kerrigan Byrne’s Victorian Rebels series, I became intrigued by the secondary character of Chief Inspector Sir Carlton Morley of Scotland Yard, and like many other readers, hoped that the author planned to write his story at some point. A weakness his enemies can use against him. The tempting woman has become his weakness. When their firestorm of passion burns out of control, Morley discovers, too late, that he was right. On the night she searches for it, she stumbles upon a man made of shadows, muscle and wrath…and decides he is the one. Prim and proper Pru is expected to live a life of drudgery, but before she succumbs to her fate, she craves just one night of desire. Until temptation lands – quite literally – in his lap, taking the form of Prudence Goode. Now he stalks the night, in search of redemption and retribution, vowing to never give into temptation, as it’s just another form of weakness.

A twin, a thief, and a murderer, until tragedy reshaped him. As a decorated soldier, he was legend for his unflinching trigger finger, his precision in battle, and his imperturbable strength. As a man, he secured his fortune and his preeminence as Scotland Yard’s ruthless chief inspector. Sir Carlton Morley is famously possessed of extraordinary will, singular focus, and a merciless sense of justice. This title may be downloaded from Audible via Amazon

How to Love a Duke in Ten Days by Kerrigan Byrne