About a Rogue

Desperately Seeking Duke

By: Caroline Linden

Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick

Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's summary

The first book in the new series Desperately Seeking Duke from USA Today best-selling and RITA award-winning author Caroline Linden.

It’s no love match....

Bianca Tate is horrified when her sister, Cathy, is obliged to accept an offer of marriage from Maximilian St. James, notorious rake. Defiantly, she helps Cathy elope with her true love and takes her sister’s place at the altar.

It’s not even the match that was made....

Perched on the lowest branch of his family tree, Max has relied on charm and cunning to survive. But an unexpected stroke of luck gives him an outside chance at a dukedom - and which Tate sister he weds hardly seems to matter.

But could it be the perfect match?

Married or not, Bianca is determined to protect her family’s prosperous ceramics business, even when Max shows an affinity for it - not to mention a dangerous ability to intrigue and tempt Bianca herself. And when Max realizes how beautiful and intelligent and desirable Bianca is, he’ll have to prove he’s no rogue, but the passionately devoted husband she craves....

©2020 Caroline Linden (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers

Love. Love. Love

I read some of the other reviews and thought UH-OH! This was a good book and one that people need in this day and time! Funny, sweet, likable characters, and just a good story. So don’t change your mind because some others thought it wasn’t any good. Enjoy!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️

Fierce independent heroine

Really enjoyed Bianca & Max’s enemies to lovers relationship. The great detail into the business of pottery & porcelain along with Max’s background brought their love story together making a very recommend book.

This is a winner!

I am very picky about the plots, characters, and performances of the readers of the books that I choose - and Desperately Seeking Duke gets 5 stars for them all! I was hooked from the very beginning, and was not disappointed in the HEA ending. Also, the author created enough tension between the main characters to make the story interesting, but she did not leave you there to feel any frustration or anxiety- I've read so many books lately that make you want to give up on the book because it's just too much! You will not regret getting this book if you are a fan of a good love story. Enjoy.

About A Rouge

I couldn't put it down. Nice way to spend an epedemic weekend. Thanks Beverley Crick

Awesome fun

Awesomely done and it was interesting how it balance lives of different classes and social issues of the time with women’s rights and roles as strong as the men . Love and care and friendships are strong in this story..

Same Fatal Flaw!

I have listened to five of this author's books and so far, I have the same feeling about the endings. Of course, love wins out in the end but the author spends all this time involving you in the plot along with all the threads weaving it together, only to end it abruptly. No prologue; no epilogue. Another 100 pages would have given you some feeling that ALL the threads were neatly tied up in a completed bow. For instance, what happened after the big scene with Kathy and her sister? Readers probably assumed they did a legal marriage but to be sure, the sisters had a heated discussion over the damage. Did St. James become the Duke? How did the shops do in London? Did the Fortuna line become a success? Did the aunt form any relationship with Bianca's father (it was hinted)? What happened with the porcelain line? What about the relationship between the Duchess of Carlyle and St. James? Was he never curious about his father? That would probably be a book in itself.

Hopefully as she matured as a writer, her endings will improve.

Great Series Start

The characters in this story are different. They are both in, say it isn’t so Lizzy, TRADE!

I really liked that our leading lady was strong, but at times, she was flat out rude to a man who really had not brought it on himself.

Watching as they came to terms with the marriage they find themselves in made this a wonderful story with well developed characters fun of life and wit.

There are some pretty steamy sex scenes once they finally consummate the marriage, but not overly raunchy. I’d give it an R rating. Definitely not a PG13.

Ms.Crick does a very good job, as usual.

I absolutely loved this book

C Linden did an amazing job on this book. The story is original and holds your attention. She did a great job in incorporating one story into another. And the characters were awesome. Good story, good characters and good narration...the perfect book.

Amusing and thought provoking

This book started out one way and then took me on a happy adventure lots of twists and turns. A good read.

Terrible ending

I really enjoyed this story, but the ending was extremely frustrating! it needed a few more chapters to tie things up.