“If we were of equal station,” he said softly, “I would have proposed to you when we took our walk in the maze.” evie dunmore, bringing down the duke 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.

Title: Bringing Down the Duke (A League of Extraordinary Women #1)Įngland, 1879. 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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