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Release Day Review! IF THE DUKE DARES by Darcy Burke (Rogue Rules #1)

Published by beckymmoe on 01/30/2024

Incorrigible flirt Acton Loxley, Duke of Wellsbourne is in need of a duchess. En route to greet a potential bride, he encounters a most intriguing and captivating widow who completely distracts him from his task. However, she disappears before he can deepen their acquaintance. Acton begrudgingly goes to meet his bride, unaware she and the widow are one and the same. When Persephone Barclay’s younger sister is compromised, Persephone must wed before the scandal spreads. Her parents scramble to present her to the Duke of Wellsbourne; except he’s precisely the kind of rogue she has now vowed to avoid. Taking…

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New Release Review! YULE BE MY DUKE by Darcy Burke (Matchmaking Chronicles)

Published by beckymmoe on 10/05/2023

It was loathe at first sight when Cecilia Bromwell met John Rowley, the Earl of Cosford five years ago at a party where his ill-conceived prank and irascible temper ruined not one but two of her new gowns. Now, at a Yuletide house party, Cecilia learns their parents seek to match them in wedded bliss. However, she has no interest in even speaking with the “Menace,” especially after he spills wine down her bodice, ruining yet another gown. John has no desire to be paired with the “Shrew” for the Yule log hunt. But if they can suffer each other’s…

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Release Day Review! THE MAKE-BELIEVE WIDOW by Darcy Burke (Matchmaking Chronicles #4)

Published by beckymmoe on 07/20/2023

Widower James Ludlow, Earl of Rotherham, attends a house party in search of a mother for his two daughters, and his primary requirement is that he doesn’t fall in love. Having already given that emotion to his former wife without reciprocation, he prefers a mutually beneficial arrangement without sentimentality. However, he meets a charming widow with seemingly wonderful maternal instincts, and he can’t ignore the sparks between them. Perhaps a little passion wouldn’t be so unwelcome… Everyone thinks Charlotte Dunthorpe is a widow, but she’s only pretending to be. When her dear friend invites her to a matchmaking house party…

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New Release Review! MATCHING THE MARQUESS by Darcy Burke (Lords in Love #5)

Published by beckymmoe on 05/30/2023

Benjamin Nash, Marquess of Creslow, must marry, for he is the last of the family line. Desirous of a business arrangement instead of a love match, he hires a matchmaker, but on the way to the May Day festival where he will meet her, as well as his matches, he encounters an alluring lady who may suit him perfectly… After her husband’s death left her a pauper, Rebecca Sweet relied on family for help and in return guided two of them to successful marriages. Engaged with her first real client, she plans to present him a gaggle of young ladies…

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Release Day Review! ROMANCING THE HEIRESS by Darcy Burke (Lords in Love #3)

Published by beckymmoe on 04/04/2023

Thanks to his profligate father, Phineas Radford is in dire straits. His estate verges on bankruptcy, and he doesn’t have the funds to maintain his family’s botanical gardens–an intrinsic part of Marrywell’s annual May Day Matchmaking Festival. He prays no one learns of his secret desperation or there will be a panic about the future of the festival, which everyone relies on to fill their own coffers. The only way to save his estate and the town is to find an heiress to wed before time runs out. After five years away, Leah Webster returns home as the companion to…

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New Release Review! BEGUILING THE DUKE by Darcy Burke (Lords in Love #1)

Published by beckymmoe on 03/09/2023

Suffering a carriage mishap on the road to meet his future wife, the Duke of Lawford discovers the local town’s lodgings overflowing and must accept the hospitality of a country squire. The coach repair moves incredibly slowly, and it becomes clear that his host is attempting to manipulate a match between his daughter and Lawford. Each year, Sadie Campion looks forward to the May Day Matchmaking Festival, but this year will be different as she plans to find a husband—and not one chosen by her father and brothers. Especially not a stiff, arrogant peer from London. To stop Sadie’s meddling…

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Release Day Review! INSATIABLE by Darcy Burke (The Phoenix Club #8)

Published by beckymmoe on 01/24/2023

Society’s most exclusive invitation… Welcome to the Phoenix Club, where London’s most audacious, disreputable, and intriguing ladies and gentlemen find scandal, redemption, and second chances. Lord Lucien Westbrook is Society’s most charming and helpful gentleman. Overlooked and discredited by his father, Lucien seeks to support others any way that he can—no one deserves to feel unloved. So when he has the chance to assist his best friend’s sister in her scientific endeavors, who is he to refuse? Except her experiments involve kissing and touching and understanding how humans mate… When her brother carried on a secret affair with Lucien’s sister,…

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New Release Review! THE RUNAWAY VISCOUNT by Darcy Burke (The Matchmaking Chronicles #3)

Published by beckymmoe on 01/03/2023

Two years ago, independent widow Juliana Sheldon spent a blissful night with the Viscount Audlington at an inn during a snowstorm, and the next morning, he left without a word. Juliana doesn’t realize how much his abandonment upset her until she encounters him at a matchmaking house party. He’d like to rekindle their affair, but Juliana prefers to torment him instead. Until she finally surrenders to temptation—only to be dismayed when he begins to talk about the one thing she doesn’t want: marriage. Lucas Trask, heir to an earldom, has left his rakish reputation behind in favor of finally taking…

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(The Rest of the) New Release Reviews! DUKE IN A BOX Historical Holiday Romance Anthology

Published by beckymmoe on 12/12/2022

This anthology is available until the end of the year!In case you missed it, I reviewed the rest of the anthology here. Twelve novellas from your favorite historical romance authors featuring never-before-published steamy holiday stories. Don’t miss this limited time collection—on sale only from November 1-December 31, 2022. (A more complete anthology synopsis is available on Goodreads or on my original post.) (More) Reviews: Mrs. Peabody and the Unexpected Duke by Grace Callaway is part of her Lady Charlotte’s Society of Angels series, a historical version of Charlie’s Angels. It’s a secret duke, opposites (though only in station, because IRL…

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New Release Review! DUKE IN A BOX: 12 Steamy Historical Holiday Novellas

Published by beckymmoe on 11/03/2022

Twelve novellas from your favorite historical romance authors featuring never-before-published steamy holiday stories. Don’t miss this limited time collection—on sale only from November 1-December 31, 2022. The Duke Who Came to Christmas Dinner by Amy Rose Bennett When a bah-humbug duke is invited to Christmas dinner by his widowed neighbor, the sweet-as-a-sugarplum daughter of his former estate steward, his initial reaction is to say no…until he recalls their long-ago first kiss beneath the mistletoe… Mrs. Peabody and the Unexpected Duke by Grace Callaway When former lovers Hawker and Mrs. Peabody are paired on a spy mission over the holidays, they…

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