The Duke Redemption

Not worth the price Amazon Kindle Unlimited is charging.

It was a really good story line.i enjoyed it

i liked how the stories interconnect.

This is my favorite book of the series! Beautiful Lady Beatrice Wodehouse, 17, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Hadleigh just accepted the proposal of the Duke of Croydon when she witnesses a man about to whip a child. She interferes and the man strikes out and her horse rears throwing her and a hoof mares her right side. Her world is shattered and society dubs her Lady Beastly! 7 years later, Lady Beatrice is now the owner of Camden Manor with tenants who also fled from society’s cruelty. Now Miss Beatrice Brown is determined to know passion and attends a masquerade. Fate has her meet Mr. Wickham Murray (introduced in prior book in this series) who is the country to purchase her estate for his railroad company. He is partners with Harry Kent and Adam Garrity (also introduced in previous books). Deep attraction is mutual and Bea thinks she will never see him again. Until Wick pays a call to Miss Brown and a delightful and entertaining series of events unfold. Beatrice has built a wall around her heart and life to protect herself and her people from being hurt. It takes the patience of Wick to pierce her defenses little by little. But Bea believes that happiness is fleeting and will never endure. She refuses to sell her land and Wick is determined to find another way to satisfy his partners and stockholders and the woman he has come to love and cherish. But their path is far from smooth with arson and kidnapping of her best friend. Together they go to London to follow the clues which lead to the person who wants to destroy Beatrice. This is an exciting story of pain, cruelty and loneliness and how forgiving not just others, but oneself and remembering the ones we cherish are the true gifts that lead to joy! Both Bea and WIck evolved into selfless, giving, trusting and loving people. Enchanting story not to be missed!!

4.5 stars, as reviewed at Roses Are Blue: https://wp.me/p3QRh4-14t

Lady Beatrice Wodehouse is on top of the world. At seventeen, she’s having a successful debut season, and, in fact, has just become engaged to a handsome young duke. A terrible accident happens, one that leaves Bea with facial scars, and also affects her very future. Bea realizes that her fiancé is now regretting their engagement, so she releases him. Society treats her differently, and her own family is in turmoil over her. Eventually her parents die, and she becomes estranged from her brother, choosing to use her fortune to purchase a country estate, and to live on her own. Camden Manor is a haven not only for Bea, but for the strays and outcasts she welcomes. The years pass, and Bea is now approaching her twenty-fifth birthday. Though she’s content with her life, she longs for just one taste of passion. She attends a local masked assembly, where it’s rumored that illicit encounters are the norm, determined to have a night to remember forever.
Wickham Murray handles negotiations for the Great London Northern Railway, and he’s in town to persuade the mysterious spinster, “Beatrice Brown,” to sell him her property. Camden Manor and the surrounding land is the only remaining parcel he needs, and Miss Brown has already refused several very generous offers. Wick is also attending the masquerade, where he finds himself strangely bored with all the women and lewd activity around him. Something, however, is different, when he meets Bea, though he’s unaware of her identity. When she propositions him, he finds all his resolve to change his former rakish ways dissolving away. They spend a passionate night together, neither knowing the other’s identity, with Bea sneaking home at dawn.
Wick awakes alone, feeling somehow used, and regretful that his companion has left without revealing her identity. Wick also begins to question whether she was an innocent. When he attends to business later, at Miss Brown’s home, he recognizes his lover from the previous night, though she’s unmasked. He determines two things then and there – first, he will obtain her land, and, second, he will marry her. Bea refuses his offer and his proposal, and the battle of wills is on. The situation changes, however, when direct attacks begin to happen to Bea’s property and her friend. Bea agrees to accept Wick’s help finding out who her enemy is. Wick is adamant that he will court Bea, and that he will find a compromise for the railroad that will be agreeable to both of them.
In the meantime, Bea and Wick continue to have a steamy, and I do mean steamy, affair. The sexual chemistry between them is off the charts! Wick is a man trying to atone for a misspent youth, where he gambled, drank, spent, and womanized to excess. Now his protective and honorable side is obvious, but he can’t subdue his passion for Bea, which she returns. His treatment helps Bea to finally feel fulfilled, and not that Lady Beastly that the ton called her after her accident.
The search for Bea’s enemy leads them back to London, and the twisted path takes them to some surprising places, including a secret sex club. (Be warned, there is a scene here involving Bea and Wick that is, in my opinion, really over the top.) The villain turned out to be a total surprise to me – I love it when the solution to the mystery is not totally obvious.
THE DUKE’S REDEMPTION is well written, engaging, romantic, and very, very steamy. I totally enjoyed seeing the passion turn to love. Bea and Wick each brought something the other needed – he felt his worth and honor again, and she felt beautiful and desirable. They treated each other as equals, and I believe their future will continue to be filled with joy and passion.

A refreshing regency twist on Beauty and the Beast.
I loved reading this. This is not just a romance. It has mystery, revenge and death strewn throughout. I admire Lady Beatrice. At seventeen her first season in London she suffered a scar on her face all from trying to save a boy from being beaten mercilessly. She was dubbed Lady Beastly. Little did she know how that kindness to that young boy would be returned to her in the future under the most dire and dangerous circumstances. Beatrice took her inheritance and bought a manor in the country. She welcomed all that felt like rejects from society. They became her friends and tenants and farmers on her land. She was kindness itself and earned the respect and admiration of all those who worked for her. She was an astute manager and had a successful estate. Beatrice was fiercely loyal to those she cared for and for all her tenants. She treated all as equals with kindness and respect. After her accident that left her face scarred, she fled London because she lost her fiancé, she lost all her friends and her beloved family fell apart. Now at twenty-five she was still a virgin and decided to indulge in one night of passion. She attended a masked ball, a bacchanal, an orgy of sorts. She met a stranger that met her three requirements. He removed his mask but she refused to remove hers. She knew this was her one and only time to receive and cherish such pleasure. A few days later the GLNR – the Great London Northern Railway who had been dogging her consistently to sell her land to make way for the railroad sent their emissary. Shockingly she recognized him as her lover for that one decadent night. His name was Wickham Murray. He was the second son of a viscount and a partner in the GLNR. Wickham or Wick as he was known had a checkered past that when done with that part of his life was determined to redeem his honor. Wick had shown himself to be an incredible man. Although wealthy in his own right, he treated everyone as an equal and never lorded himself above others. He was also very sensitive to his surroundings and audience. He was not fake and was comfortable around the working man and they with him. He had this uniquely strange quality that enabled him to take a screaming irritable baby and calm them. No one had any idea how he did that but he had a gift. He had also taken a serious romantic interest in Beatrice but she did not allow herself to entertain it. She thought all he wanted was her land and would do anything even marry her to get it. But as she got to know him by spending time with him, she realized he was not what she thought he was. He was sincere in all he said, kept his word and was honorable to a fault. When Beatrice’s life and home was threatened Wick stood by her side. They made a list of her enemies and there were quite a few. When the threat became more real. Wick took her back to London for protection and to follow a lead, a clue. Beatrice’s old insecurities flared back to life and yet she was resolved to get to the bottom of the mayhem. She also had to deal with the fact that Wick was in an untenable situation. It was either her or the failure of his company. Putting all that aside she only thought of keeping her tenants safe. Wick had to deal with the brunt of the investors’ frustrations for the delay in his railway project. They threatened him that they would pull out if he did not get the deal done. On top of all that he had to deal with his growing affections for Beatrice and knew he had to break down the walls around her heart and win her trust. There was so much going on in this story that made it an amazing read. The difficult relationship between Beatrice and Wick, the railway project, the dangerous mysterious enemy and the revelations of shocking proportions about the people she thought she knew are all segued intricately page after page. A must read. You will not be disappointed. I received an Advanced Readers Copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.