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Dukes in Danger
Series · 5 books · 2023-2024

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Don't Judge a Duke by His Cover book cover
#1

Don't Judge a Duke by His Cover

2023

Lawrence, Duke of Penshaw, is undercover and getting punched on a daily basis. Devastated by the murder of his brother by a traitor to the Crown, Lawrence agrees to leave his identity as Duke behind to go undercover at an illegal boxing ring in London. He’s waiting for the killer to return from France, and absolutely must not get distracted. Especially by a beauty from Society who absolutely should not be here. Julia Dryden knows her mother would be scandalized by her presence at the boxing matches—it flies in the face of their agreement for her to choose a husband by Easter. After all, she isn’t getting any younger. But her eye is caught by a tall, handsome man who gives everything in the ring and seems to have no fear of danger. From two different worlds—but not the ones she thinks—Julia has no idea the man she’s falling in love with is not a common rogue. And Lawrence has to keep it that way for if he loses focus, just for a moment, he may lose everything. The chance to catch a killer, put a traitor behind bars, revenge his brother…and Julia’s heart.
The Duke is Mightier than the Sword book cover
#3

The Duke is Mightier than the Sword

2023

Montague Lancaster, Duke of Caefall, is in hiding in Oxford after a wartime injury, trying to ignore his doctor’s advice. Because he’ll definitely be going back to France to fight, right? He’s determined not to leave his honor on the battlefield—but Montague has financial concerns to keep him occupied. The Duchy is bankrupt. He’s got to keep it a secret and keep his presence in England quiet. Fencing is his only refuge, his passion, and Montague agrees to teach students to pass the time. Easier said than done when a poetess storms into his bedchamber and demands he help her finish her poem… Sarah Lockwood is tired of having her poetry diminished merely because she’s a woman. Society holds no interest, and she’s in search of a poetry professor in one of the prestigious Oxford colleges to help her finish it. She ends up discovering a hidden duke who fences like a soldier and kisses like the devil. Words cross blades with actions as both Sarah and Montague fight their growing feelings for each other, and the expectations of the world. She cannot be a poet. He must return to France to fight. So which is the duke or the sword? This full length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order. Read Free in Kindle Unlimited! Dukes in Danger Don’t Judge a Duke By His Cover Strike While the Duke is Hot The Duke is Mightier than the Sword A Duke in Time Saves Nine Every Duke Has His Price Put Your Best Duke Forward Where There’s a Duke, There’s a Way Curiosity Killed the Duke Play with Dukes, Get Burned The Best Things in Life are Dukes A Duke a Day Keeps the Doctor Away All Good Dukes Come to an End
Every Duke Has His Price book cover
#5

Every Duke Has His Price

2023

Hugh Shardlow, Duke of Martock, is a Duke down on his luck, and determined not to get tangled into any other danger. That’s why he’s accosting this young woman in the middle of nowhere, France, in the middle of the night. He’d only come to France to drink, gamble, and escape the terrors of England. Even with his father dead and buried, the place held nothing but darkness for him…until his money ran out. Which is why the brightness of this mad Englishwoman, searching the French armies for her supposedly prisoner-of-war brother, is an absolute nonsense. Nice young ladies don’t march into French encampments. They don’t meander into French inns and accost the locals asking after her brother. And they certainly don’t make bargains with strange penniless desperate Englishmen. But Beth Mead has never been one for Society’s expectations, nor keeping them. And so a deal is Hugh will help Beth find her missing soldier brother, and she’ll pay his passage back to England. Both think they’ve got the better bargain, but you can’t put a price on trust—and as secrets and lies intermingle with hopes and expectations, Beth and Hugh swiftly discover that to protect themselves, they may have to betray the other… This full length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order. Read Free in Kindle Unlimited! Dukes in Danger Don’t Judge a Duke By His Cover Strike While the Duke is Hot The Duke is Mightier than the Sword A Duke in Time Saves Nine Every Duke Has His Price Put Your Best Duke Forward Where There’s a Duke, There’s a Way Curiosity Killed the Duke Play with Dukes, Get Burned The Best Things in Life are Dukes A Duke a Day Keeps the Doctor Away All Good Dukes Come to an End
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#8

Curiosity Killed the Duke

2023

Samuel Dellamore, Duke of Chantmarle, is on a mission . . . but it’s not the one everyone thinks. Samuel has turned up in Edinburgh and convinced Society that he’s on the hunt for a wife. But his actual mission is to scour the city to discover the traitor spilling secrets to the French. Samuel’s natural curiosity, good looks, and title have always been enough to get him what he wants—even when he’s not on the hunt for a spy—but a chance encounter with a Miss Lucy Finch shows him that she may be the exception to that rule. This mysterious woman quickly becomes a baffling and intriguing distraction from his real purpose in Scotland. Unfortunately for Lucy. The last thing she needs is the attention of a duke while she’s trying desperately to pay off her ruthless blackmailers. And she’s determined to warn this Samuel away from her—for his own sake. She knows she’s dangerous. Bad news. But the duke’s curiosity and the growing attraction between them lands them both in a scandalous situation which only a marriage of convenience can set right. Will Lucy accept the offer of respectability just when she needs it? And, even more importantly, can she keep the scandal of her past away from the devastatingly handsome duke she may just be falling in love with?
Play With Dukes, Get Burned book cover
#9

Play With Dukes, Get Burned

2024

Can a man ever give too many gifts to a woman he refuses to touch? Daniel Vaughn, Duke of Thornfalcone, never expected to be a duke. Now he’s attempting to pay off his dead brother’s mistress, Nora Harvey, who is absolutely refusing to accept anything from him. His whole life has changed, people won’t stop bowing when he approaches, and even his sister refuses to stop calling him “Your Grace”. Daniel needs to just fix something, as he used to do in his old spying life. Nora Harvey, his brother’s old mistress, will accept his beneficence. Whether she likes it or not. But Nora doesn’t want this bizarrely kind Duke’s help. She knows what men really want, and she’s waiting for this Daniel to suddenly demand what every man demands. You know. That. But though his natural shyness keeps him back, the heat growing between them threatens to burn through all their good intentions and cross all of Society’s lines. Such a shame that Nora has more than one secret which will soon radically alter Daniel’s life and put them both in danger… Can Daniel restrain himself from kissing his brother’s ex-mistress—and will Nora ever tell him that she never actually accepted his brother’s attentions?

Author

Emily E.K. Murdoch
Emily E.K. Murdoch
Author · 79 books

Emily E.K. Murdoch is also known as Emily Murdoch. Emily Murdoch is a medieval historian and writer. Throughout her career so far she has examined a codex and transcribed medieval sermons at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, designed part of an exhibition for the Yorkshire Museum, worked as a researcher for a BBC documentary presented by Ian Hislop, and worked at Polesden Lacey with the National Trust. She has a degree in History and English, and a Masters in Medieval Studies, both from the University of York. Emily is currently working on a new four part Regency novella series, two of which are now published. You can follow her on twitter and instagram @emilyekmurdoch, find her on facebook at www.facebook.com/theemilyekmurdoch, and read her blog at www.emilyekmurdoch.com

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