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USA Today bestselling author Stacy Reid’s addictive tale of two lost people who are found…by each other. London is buzzing with the news that James Winters, the Duke of Wulverton—thought lost at sea a decade ago—survived in the harsh wilderness of the Yukon. Now he’s been returned to his family, his responsibilities, and a nightmarish world of artifice and noise. He has three weeks to become a refined, elegant duke for the Queen…or doom the entire family to ruin and scandal. Promising psychologist Jules Southby knows a lot about disguises. She’s secretly been living as a boy since birth, enjoying the freedoms of men and knowing little about how to behave like a woman. When she meets the alluring duke, she’s unprepared for his raw, masculine beauty and icy intelligence…or that he can see through her darkest secret. Jules has very little time to transform the duke into a true semblance of an English gentleman. Yet his very presence seems to unravel her in every way. Their attraction is stark and achingly real—and forbidden. But loving the lost duke would mean losing every sacrifice she’s made to earn her freedom…
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This ARC was provided by NetGalley and here’s my honest review
This book was fast paced, heartfelt, smart, fun and most of all swoon worthy for us regency romance girlies!
The Duke of Wulverton was found after 10 years of being lost in the Canadian wilderness and is now believed by everyone to be savage and animalistic and not sound to continue his duties as a Duke.
Jules Southby was part of a scheme that was created minutes after she was born in order to save the mother from another risky childbirth. Recently graduated from the University with a degree in Psychology, would she now be able to join and work with one of England’s best Doctor of the Mind?
When the James and Jules met they became each others person, they can only be honest in each other’s company as no one else can truly understand what they are looking for in life. Jules understood the trauma that James had undergone when he was alone in the wilderness for 10 years, her intelligence and wit was what saved James since he got back.
This book was well written and will tug at your heart strings for the very best reasons!
0The beginning of this was so slow. But it really made it forward in the end. I absolutely loved the end with my whole heart.
Jules lived her life as her father’s son. No one except her mother and a few trusted servants knew the truth. Not even her own father. No one until she meets the Duke of Wulverton. The Duke had been missing in the Alaskan wilds for the past 10 years. And his family is at a loss at how to deal with him. So his mother brings in a psychiatrist, Jules’ father, to help him. Jules accompanies her father as as assistant since it is also her field of study. But as soon as the Duke meets her, he knows. And she’s the only person he wants to deal with. And soon, they fall in love. But the Duke has to find a Duchess. And giving up her freedoms as a man to live as a woman is the last thing Jules wants.
The way these two loved each other was so amazing. And after a really slow start, they had a beautiful romance. I’m so torn by this book because the beginning was so blah, but the end really picked up. So I’d definitely recommend this, but if it seems slow, just stick it out. The end is worth it.
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