The wicked duke takes a wife
By: Jillian Hunter
Contributors: Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)
Series: A Ballantine Books Mass Market Original; Boscastle series
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780345503954
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Duchies; Fiction
Description: "Lord Griffin Boscastle has no intention of ending his glorious career as a rakehell now that he has inherited a dukedom. Still, there are responsibilities he must discharge before he resumes his pleasures, including finding a bride and depositing his incorrigible niece at a relative's academy outside London. It is at this so-very-proper finishing school that flame-haired instructress Harriet Gardner awakens in Griffin emotions so dangerously intoxicating that he must avoid her at all cost. Yet when Harriet finds work in the townhouse where Griffin resides, her presence tempts him at every turn. Harriet has survived London's streets far too long to let an arrogant duke woo a bride he doesn't want when she desires him for herself, and she has seen too much of life not to recognize a man ripe for redemption. But just as Harriet finds the perfect cure for His Lordship's devilish ways, a vindictive enemy intervenes, and the duke whom Harriet has plotted to save suddenly becomes her most devoted protector."--p. [4] of cover.