Any Duchess Will
Do
Tessa Dare
On Sale Date: May 28, 2013
ISBN: 9780062240125
ISBN: 0062240129
Genre: Fiction / Romance
Publisher: Avon
384 pages
Today Pauline is just a serving girl in Spindle Cove
but tomorrow... she'll be a Duchess?! It's a Spindle Cove Pygmalion story as
only New York Times Bestselling author Tessa Dare can tell it.
What's a duke to do, when the girl who's perfectly
wrong becomes the woman he can't live without?
Griffin York, the Duke of Halford, has no desire to
wed this season-or any season-but his diabolical mother abducts him to
"Spinster Cove" and insists he select a bride from the ladies in
residence. Griff decides to teach her a lesson that will end the marriage
debate forever. He chooses the serving girl.
Overworked and struggling, Pauline Simms doesn't
dream about dukes. All she wants is to hang up her barmaid apron and open a
bookshop. That dream becomes a possibility when an arrogant, sinfully
attractive duke offers her a small fortune for a week's employment. Her duties
are simple: submit to his mother's "duchess training"… and fail
miserably.
But in London, Pauline isn't a miserable failure.
She's a brave, quick-witted, beguiling failure-a woman who ignites Griff's
desire and soothes the darkness in his soul. Keeping Pauline by his side won't
be easy. Even if Society could accept a serving girl duchess-can a roguish duke
convince a serving girl to trust him with her heart?
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Any
Duchess Will Do Excerpt
“I thought you didn’t have noble impulses.”
“Believe me.” He stared into her eyes and spoke the words without
lewdness or irony. “I don’t.”
If he possessed a single grain of decency, he would have set her down
long moments ago. Wicked as it made him, he loved the way she was clinging to
his neck. As though the world around them were a vast, frozen waste and sharing
the heat of his body was her only chance to survive. It was so easy to believe,
for this moment, that she needed him. Needed his touch, his mouth, his heated
breath. His bared, feverish skin all over hers.
Amazing, what acrobatic contortions the lusting male mind could achieve.
He’d almost convinced himself that kissing her lush, sweet lips was the noble
thing to do.
Almost. But not quite.
“I’ll put you down now,” he said.
She nodded.
And then she pressed her lips to his.
Praise and curses be heaped. The girl kissed him.
Tessa Dare a part-time librarian, full-time mommy,
and swing-shift writer. She makes her home in Southern California, where she
shares a cozy, cluttered bungalow with her husband, their two children, and a
dog.
And remember... Always keep it Dirty, Smutty & Hussy!
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Thanks for hosting Tessa!
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