Search - The Duke Next Door (Heiress Brides, Bk 2)

Regency "Beauty and the Beast" retelling. It has some good moments, but I found the author's style pallid and the characterizations notably shallow.

The second in the trilogy. Love this series. This tale is a little darker than the first. Must read.

Second in Heiress series. Twists and turns as always but a good quick read!

A Marriage of convenience...
The dangerously beautiful Deirdre Cantor is determined to inherit her grandfather's vast fortune. All she needs is to marry a duke...and be the first granddaughter to walk down the isle. So when the proper Calder Marbrook, the Marquis of Brookhaven and future duke of Brookmoor, is abandoned at the altar, Deirdre makes it her business to become his wife-in spite of the whispers about his past.

An Inconvenient Truth...
Soon Deirdre's visions of a lavish existence with the handsome Calder are shattered when she learns his shocking secret. Feeling betrayed, Deridre seeks revenge by playing a perilous and seductive game of cat and mouse with her husband that threatens to drive them both to the heights of passion. But at what cost? Calder is determined to keep his secret under lock and key-and to make his stunning wife his in every way that matters. Even if it means winning her heart all over again....

2nd in the Heiress Brides series... this is the first Celeste Bradley series I have read. It is a keeper...(I only posted this because I got a replacement in hardback!). I read the entire series back to back...great plot, wonderful characters... well written and fun!

Lots of fun. Good book to sit back with and enjoy.