As Clara runs and Adam pursues, the sexual tension mounts, and Clara rethinks her stance on marriage. They begin a game of cat and mouse game, and it is captivating to watch. When Adam decides he wants to marry her, because he wants information and he desires her. She doesn’t need to marry and nor does she want to. She was her father’s favorite, and he left her a substantial inheritance. She’s free-spirited, confident and not afraid to tell him that she want nothing to do with him or her grandmother’s plot. He’s intrigued from the moment he meets her. She is appalled by the idea, but she doesn’t need to worry because Adam is interested in her and not her sister. Lady Clara Cheswick hasn’t really been aware of the feud or what caused it, but she is suddenly thrust into middle of the family war when her controlling grandmother seeks to marry Adam to Clara's younger sister. Adam’s family and the Cheswicks have been feuding off and on for years, and he has reasons to believe they might know about his father’s death or have played a part in it. He’s now known as the “Dangerous Duke" because of it, but there is only one family that has reason to fear Adam - the Cheswicks. Adam Penrose, the Duke of Stratton, has just returned to England after five years in France, where he earned a reputation for fighting and winning several duels. Madeline Hunter's The Most Dangerous Duke in London has it all-a fiery heroine, an alluring duke, a revenge plot, and a mystery-and it is an exceptional historical romance. It didn’t quite sweep me away (the details were too slow in arriving), but I still liked it and will definitely be keeping an eye out for the next. If you like your historicals to have a decent grounding in the time period and have a healthy plot as well as a stirring romance, then Madeline Hunter is always a good bet. Both have support systems away from family, providing humour as well as insight and necessary doses of good sense.Īll in all, I enjoyed this. I also really liked the friendships in this story – both Adam’s and Clara’s. True, she is a little naive when it comes to certain aspects of an affair, as well as her father and the part he may, or may not, have played in the feud with Adam’s family, but I liked the way she stood up to her family and held her ground with Adam. She’s independent and wealthy and intelligent, but in a way that perfectly fits with the time period. He’s loyal and generous with those he loves and even when he’s at his most arrogant, he does care about Clara beyond her family. Which is a shame, because beneath his dukely veneer, I really liked Adam. Considering his focus on this point, I wish we’d been given a few details a little earlier because it takes forever for anything to emerge – about the family feud too – and it made it harder for me to really get behind him when he’s ordering Clara to marry him and growling at his friends. He has power and he knows how to wield it, especially when it comes to uncovering the truth of his father’s death. Take one brooding duke, freshly returned from France with a dangerous reputation on a quest for the truth, add an independent lady, who has far more important matters on her mind than marriage, sprinkle in a family feud and an accusation of treason and you get another enjoyable read from Madeline Hunter.Īrrogant and dangerous, Adam is very much a dukely duke.
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