Scoundrel of My Heart

Once Upon a Dukedom, Book #1

by Lorraine Heath

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

She’s his sisters best friend and the girl he has been obsessed with forever… He’s her best friends younger brother, who has teased her for as long as she can remember.

She needs to marry a titled gentleman. He isn’t good enough for her.

This new series picks up with Lord Griffith Stanwick, whom we meet as Griff in the last book of the Sin for All Seasons series, Beauty Tempts the Beast, where his sister is working in a tavern and meets Benedict Truelove. This books gives the backstory on the Stanwick family’s fall from grace.

We start with a mild flirtation between Lord Griffin and Lady Kathryn. They have recently stopped being at odds with each other and Lord Griffin has even declared that he would help Lady Kathryn win the much sought after Duke on the market this season. Working together they both feel an obvious attraction and they both share their hopes and dreams to each other, but Lord Griffin is just a scapegrace second son and Lady Kathryn requires a lord with a title to received her inheritance.

Soon Lord Griffin’s assistance pays off and Lady Kathryn is chosen to court the duke… Lord Griffin doesn’t have much time to second guess his assistance because that very night the males of his family are arrested fro treason. Soon all he has known is taken away, even his curtesy title. He is just Griff now.

Time passes and changes both Griff and Lady Kathryn. Griff is inspired to make his dreams of a singles nightclub come to fruition and he believes Lady Kathryn is living her dream… until she walks into his club and the sparks light up between them again!

Oh wow! The angst between these two was palpable throughout Heath’s masterly storytelling. I was captured by the drama of the events unfolding and moved by the lengths Griff would go to help Lady Kathryn attain her dream. This was an excellent series start with so much potential in the fascinating side characters! I loved seeing the Truelove family again altogether and happy. I experienced so many emotions reading this book!

Lorrain Heath is a master of mixing the grit and glitter of Victorian London! This series is something you do not want to miss!

Scoundrel of My Heart by Lorraine Heath is scheduled to release March 30th, 2021.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from HarperCollins Publishers, Avon Books through Edelweiss+. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

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