tessa dare romancing the duke castles ever after

Her inheritance? Gostley Castle in the middle of ‘Nowhere, Northumberland’, once the seat of the Rothbury Dukedom. That is until she receives an unexpected letter informing her that she has been left a bequest by her father’s patron, the late Earl of Lynford. Penniless, parentless and now homeless following the sudden and untimely loss of her father to apoplexy (of all things), Izzy scarcely has two shillings to rub together and finds herself in a desperate situation. Unfortunately, as a now plain, unmarried twenty-six-year-old woman who has never even been kissed, her life seems more akin to a comic tragedy than to the romantic fairytales she once dreamt about as a little girl.

Rescued from drudgery by charming prince? The storybooks offered endless possibilities.Īnd as she grew older, Izzy crossed them off. She never doubted romance would be in her future, too. Moments later, with my movie paused and my friend summarily dismissed, I was hopelessly in love with this book.Īs the daughter of a famed author, Isolde Ophelia Goodnight grew up on tales of brave knights and fair maidens. Except I was making my friend watch Mean Girls via Skype (On a Wednesday, wearing pink :P) and sorting my e-books to check if they were working on my new reader and as I read out the first paragraph as a joke, I had this overwhelming urge to find out what happened next. Most of the books I’ve read in 2016 have been sappy romances and I had no intention of adding another to the list so soon. Let me begin by saying that I really did not plan on reading this book.

Tessa Dare’s Romancing the Duke not only meets these expectations but exceeds them. It is a truth universally acknowledged that if one is reading a historical romance, one must have a heroine to root for, a hero to swoon for, know this story may have a happy ending, and that’s the only predictability you’re going to have.

Tessa dare romancing the duke castles ever after