Review: Once Upon A Duke.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 16, 2014
Kathryn Darrell, widow and fresh from the countryside, traveled to London; specifically to meet Ryder Blake, Duke of Darkwell. She has heard of his reputation and is determined to have a sexual interlude with the man. Kathryn felt like a woman who had been liberated from a stifling existence upon her husband's death; she had been left very wealthy even though her husband had tried his best to squander her money. Ryder Blake is used to women coming to him for sexual exploits but he is still holding on to his memories of his deceased wife. Kathryn tells him, on their first meeting, that she has come to him to be "pleasured". Ryder considers her an innocent-yes, an innocent- even though he proceeds to "pleasure" her, just short of actual intercourse, then sends her on her way. But Kathryn is determined to have more and so basically trails him and presents herself at all opportunities. A dull, boring, lame book. An airhead for the heroine; a grieving rake (who wears his deceased wife's ribbon around his wrist but removes it when he "pleasures" a woman) with a roaring libido and no control. Blah, Blah, Blah.