“To me, romance is the ultimate escape because it offers total wish fulfillment. “I’m a business consultant with long working hours, so I mostly read for escape,” she says. It’s obviously set in England and just flowed naturally in English.”ĭunmore came late to the romance genre but fell into it with adoration once she did. Bringing Down The Duke is, in a way, a combination of all of these elements I love. My academic background is in politics and economics, and the Oxford campus is steeped in history. “Then I studied for my degrees in the U.K. So why write in English? “I began studying English in middle school,” says the author, who is German and lives in Berlin. Given the facility of her storytelling and the beauty of her writing, it’s surprising that Dunmore is a debut author-and that English is her second language. 3) , which has received stars and accolades from everyone everywhere (including a Kirkus star).
Locked in a battle with rising passion and a will matching her own, Annabelle will learn just what it takes to topple a duke.Ī stunning debut for author Evie Dunmore and her Oxford Rebels, in which a fiercely independent vicar's daughter takes on a duke in a fiery love story that threatens to upend the British social order.Chances are, if you’re a fan of historical romance, you’ve heard all the buzz around Evie Dunmore’s debut, Bringing Down the Duke(Berkley, Sept. 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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