He is looking for a wife of equal standing to secure the legacy he has worked so hard to rebuild, not an outspoken commoner who could never be his duchess. Sebastian is appalled to find a suffragist squad has infiltrated his ducal home, but the real threat is his impossible feelings for green-eyed beauty Annabelle. Her challenge: not to give in to the powerful attraction she can't deny for the man who opposes everything she stands for. Her target: Sebastian Devereux, the cold and calculating Duke of Montgomery who steers Britain's politics at the Queen's command. Her charge: recruit men of influence to champion their cause. In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising women's suffrage movement. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford. "With her sterling debut, Evie Dunmore dives into a fresh new space in historical romance that hits all the right notes." - Entertainment WeeklyĪ stunning debut for author Evie Dunmore and her Oxford suffragists in which a fiercely independent vicar's daughter takes on a powerful duke in a fiery love story that threatens to upend the British social order.Įngland, 1879. Her A League of Extraordinary Women series is, well, extraordinary." -Julia Quinn, #1 New York Times bestselling author (Sept.Description "Dunmore is my new find in historical romance. Charming, sexy, and thoroughly transportive, this is historical romance done right. Despite their mounting passion, their disparate circumstances make a relationship impossible, but they set out to find a way to make it work. But when Annabelle finds herself ill and snowed in at Montgomery’s home, the pair discover they are more compatible-politically, emotionally, and physically-than either would have believed. He is entirely unprepared for a beautiful, radical woman to derail his mission. Montgomery is obsessed with getting back the castle his father gambled away and is willing to sell out his own ideals and work with the Tory Party if it will get the queen to grant his request.
When she brazenly offers a political pamphlet to the Duke of Montgomery, it is just the first of many times that she shocks him with her brains and courage.
In exchange, she’s required to publicly support their cause. Annabelle Archer is granted a scholarship by the National Society for Women’s Suffrage to become one of the first women to study at Oxford University. A bright, penniless suffragette in Victorian-era England melts the heart of a notoriously icy duke in this delightful romance.
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