Pen Thorne was such fun to write, too. She’s loved Cam since she was a girl, but she’s smart enough to know it’s hopeless. So what happens when scandal forces them to marry? It’s the classic immovable object and irresistible force scenario. Pen is such a vibrant, passionate, head-strong presence that Cam hasn’t got a chance. Although he puts up a pretty good fight!
Another part of WHAT A DUKE DARES that I really enjoyed writing was the secondary romance involving Pen’s rakish brother Harry and innocent Sophie Fair-brother. There’s a real touch of Romeo and Juliet about this couple. I hadn’t written two love stories in one book before and the contrasting trajectories throw each relationship into high relief. As a reader, I always like to get two romances for the price of one.
If you’d like to know more about WHAT A DUKE DARES and the other books in the Sons of Sin series—Seven Nights in a Rogue’s Bed, Days of Rakes and Roses, and A Rake’s Midnight Kiss—please check out my website: http://annacampbell.info/books.html.
Happy reading—and may all your dukes be daring!
Best wishes,
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Epigraph
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
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Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2014 by Marilyn Pappano
Cover design by Christine Foltzer
Cover Art by Judy York
Hand Lettering by Ron Zinn
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Excerpt from A Hero to Come Home To © 2013 by Marilyn Pappano
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