Author: | Violetta Rand |
Genre: | Historical Romance |
File Name: | duke-of-decadence-by-violetta-rand.epub |
Original Title: | Duke of Decadence (Lords of Hedonism Book 1) |
Creator: | Violetta Rand |
Language: | en |
Identifier: | MOBI-ASIN:B083RJWCR4 |
Publisher: | Dragonblade Publishing, Inc. |
Date: | 1578585600 |
Subject: | Fiction,Historical,romance |
File Size: | 211556.352 |
Alonzo, the Duke of Pridegate, is handsome, wealthy, and hedonistic to a fault. Gifted with the voice of a siren that can inflame the tamest of London debutantes, he has just returned to London after a year-long tour. Although he spent a considerable amount of time in the beds of beautiful ladies, he longs for the familiar and sedate — and perhaps even a woman of his very own.
Lady Julia Castle, the only child of the Duke of Hampstead, has no interest in overbearing, spoiled lords—especially ones who pretend to be famous and greatly desired. She’s a dedicated intellectual with ambitions to become a respected philanthropist, so when Alonzo Farrington runs into her at a book shop and claims to be a duke, she immediately doubts him. What man of the ton would act as he does? When he invites her to a private performance, she reluctantly accepts only to discover that he is indeed a duke and a famous Verdi baritone.
Unimpressed by his fame, Julia admits to herself that any woman would be thrilled to be seduced by such a man and with her father pressuring her to marry—Julia is now desperate to find a husband she can tolerate. Could Alonzo be that husband even though he goes against everything she’s fought so hard to resist? It may be a decision that costs her greatly, for once she and the duke are alone, she’s at his mercy.
Or, so he believes…
A Lord of Hedonism may have met his match.