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A Duke Will Never Do (The Untouchables: The Spitfire Society Book 3) Kindle Edition
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After failing on the Marriage Mart, Jane Pemberton has two choices: submit to her parents’ edict to marry their boring neighbor or become a self-declared spinster and take up residence in the official headquarters of the Spitfire Society. It’s really no choice at all, and Jane is eager to embrace her newfound independence. She soon finds an unconscious viscount on her doorstep and nurses him back to health. When he offers to compensate her, she requests payment in the form of private instruction of a scandalous and intimate kind.
Having spiraled into a self-destructive abyss following the murder of his parents, Anthony, Viscount Colton, physically recovers under the care of an alluring spitfire. But it is her charm and flirtatiousness that soothes his soul and arouses his desire—until an extortion scheme forces him to face the sins of his past. Now, to save the woman who’s given him everything he lost and more, he’ll have to pay the ultimate price: his heart.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date19 May 2020
- File size3951 KB
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- ASIN : B084BYNMQ6
- Publisher : Darcy Burke Publishing (19 May 2020)
- Language : English
- File size : 3951 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
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- Print length : 278 pages
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Darcy Burke is the USA Today Bestselling Author of hot, action-packed historical and sexy, emotional contemporary romance. Darcy wrote her first book at age 11, a happily ever after about a swan addicted to magic and the female swan who loved him, with exceedingly poor illustrations.
A native Oregonian, Darcy lives on the edge of wine country with her guitar-strumming husband, their two hilarious kids who seem to have inherited the writing gene, and two Bengal cats and a third cat named after a fruit. In her “spare” time Darcy is a serial volunteer enrolled in a 12-step program where one learns to say “no,” but she keeps having to start over. Her happy places are Disneyland and Labor Day weekend at the Gorge.
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Anthony, Lord Colton, is wracked with guilt over his parents deaths and his own connection to that. He still hasn’t done anything about his guilt or grief, unless drinking to excess counts. He is found on Jane’s doorstep one morning. Jane’s patience and good nature bring Anthony back from the brink and shows him an alternative future.
Anthony offers Jane a favour for her helping him to recover. She denies the need at first, until she decides that he could help her intimately. The conversation between Miss Pemberton and Lord Colton about what she could expect to happen if her proposition came to bare was frank and amusing, as each of them was slightly embarrassed and enthralled at the same time. The two of them engage in many conversations which allow them to dally in innuendo and flirtation.
Anthony doesn’t think he is good enough for Jane and tries to stay away from her. Jane has other ideas. She has he most patience I’ve come across in a character for a while. She continues to offer help even when he is falling back into bad habits.
The dialogue between these two is wonderfully real. Humour, sarcasm, factual exchanges and sincerity are all included.
I was a little disappointed that the mystery of his landing on her doorstep wasn’t explored. I did, however, really enjoy this story despite this. I do hope that the Spitfire Society gets a greater portion of the next book. It seemed to be very much in the background in this book.
I loved how Jane snubbed society and followed her own path. Anthony was a complex character and I felt for him with his troubled past.
Great banter, chemistry and an interesting take on society in the early 1900s. Looking forward to more in this series.
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After too many failed seasons on the Marriage Mart, Jane Pemberton’s parents have decided enough is enough and demand that she wed their neighbor. Thanks to her dearest friend Phoebe and the Spitfire Society, Jane has choices, she refuses to marry and instead declares herself a spinster and moves into the house Phoebe owns and resided in before she married. She is almost perfectly content and revels in her new found independence when she finds Anthony on her doorstep. She nurses him back to health and when he insists on repaying her – she shocks him with her bold and risqué request.
This was a well written, emotional story of two flawed people helping each other find their way back to themselves. The chemistry between Jane and Anthony is hot and you can’t help but root for their HEA. The book has a bit of everything, intrigue, suspense, steamy love scenes, emotion, laughter and finally a well earned HEA. I liked the book, but be warned, the author takes a lot of creative license and has crafted a fun, sexy, emotional story, but if you are looking for historically accuracy and era appropriate behavior, you will not find it in this book . This is the third book in the series, but it can easily be read as a stand-alone title.

I was really looking forward to Anthony’s story, as he seemed so tortured, but I knew he was redeemable. And he was. I held the same interest to see Jane’s story play out. And although we saw their lives converge, so much of it seemed contrived. Further, a lot of new information was thrown at us, which was quite interesting, but it was not developed to satisfaction.
I do like the intimate encounters in my HR, but I think we could have traded one or two for more depth with the Vicar, Chamberlain and Chamberlain’s sister. A prologue? A segment from each of their perspectives? The way it played out made things seem too tidy. And sometimes downright odd.
For example, the Vicar sends someone to strong-arm Anthony that fateful day when his parents were killed, and we are supposed to just shrug our shoulders and exonerate him because he didn’t mean for it to happen? The guy knows EVERYTHING except, conveniently, that his enforcer was a murderer? And he is an ally? If he felt that badly, why not have forgiven Anthony’s debt? Or something. Seriously.
And we are told over and over again how the ton spreads gossip, ruthlessly, deliriously, but the story about Jane only spread between a few young men and her unctuous father yet manages to haunt her for five seasons? Strange that.
And what motivated Jane’s crazy parents? Just so many questions.
