num_pages: 384
description:  "Welcome to a world of reckless sensuality and glittering sophistication...of dangerously handsome gentlemen and young ladies longing to gain a title . . . of games played for high stakes, including--on occasion--a lady's virtue."  A marquess's sheltered only daughter, Lady Roberta St. Giles falls in love with a man she glimpses across a crowded ballroom: a duke, a game player of consummate skill, a notorious rakehell who shows no interest in marriage--until he lays eyes on Roberta.  Yet the Earl of Gryffyn knows too well that the price required to gain a coronet is often too high. Damon Reeve, the earl, is determined to protect the exquisite Roberta from chasing after the wrong destiny.  Can Damon entice her into a high-stakes game of his own, even if his heart is likely to be lost in the venture?
language: English
title: Desperate Duchesses
titlecomplete: Desperate Duchesses (Desperate Duchesses, #1)
characters: Lady Roberta St. Giles, Damon Reeve, Earl of Gryffyn, Elijah, Duke of Beaumont, Leopold Dautry, Duke of Villiers, Jemma,  Duchess of Beaumont
genres: Fiction, Regency, Historical Romance, Audiobook, Historical, Georgian, Historical Fiction, Romance, Adult, Regency Romance
ratings_count: 11162
places: Kensington, London, England
series: Desperate Duchesses
publisher: Avon