Her first charge is Sebastian Devereux, the cold and cunning Duke of Montgomery, who has plans of his own to win back his ancestral home by following the orders of the Queen. There’s just one catch: she must support the rising suffrage movement as a condition of her scholarship, and her first task is to recruit influential men to support their cause. The book follows Annabelle and Sebastian, a whip-smart woman from a family without many means who manages to earn a scholarship to the newly formed women’s college at Oxford University. I don’t often read historical romances without an element of magical realism to them, but Bringing Down the Duke has changed my mind on the genre, and now I’m hooked. Locked in a battle with rising passion and a will matching her own, Annabelle will learn just what it takes to topple a duke…. But he wouldn’t be the greatest strategist of the Kingdom if he couldn’t claim this alluring bluestocking without the promise of a ring…or could he?
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.
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