The Duke Who Didn’t - Courtney Milan Audiobook

Written by Courtney Milan
Read by Mary Jane Wells
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Wedgeford Trials, Book 1
Publisher: Courtney Milan
Release date: October 15, 2020
Duration: 08:30:01

Miss Chloe Fong has plans for her life, lists for her days, and absolutely no time for nonsense. Three years ago, she told her childhood sweetheart that he could talk to her once he planned to be serious. He disappeared that very night.

Except now he’s back. Jeremy Wentworth, the Duke of Lansing, has returned to the tiny village he once visited with the hope of wooing Chloe. In his defense, it took him years of attempting to be serious to realize that the endeavor was incompatible with his personality.

All he has to do is convince Chloe to make room for a mischievous trickster in her life, then disclose that in all the years they’ve known each other, he’s failed to mention his real name, his title…and the minor fact that he owns her entire village.

Only one thing can go wrong: everything.

“This romance is so gentle and comforting. I was a bit worried that racism would be a significant conflict in the book because both MCs are of Chinese descent in Victorian England (many white people in Victorian England sucked and were racist — this isn’t news to anyone). I really liked how the book handles mentions of racism. It’s mostly off-page, but it doesn’t erase the terribleness of British society and empire. Yes, the aristocracy has been cruel to Jeremy. Yes, white men have cheated Chloe’s family out of a fortune by stealing a sauce recipe. But their tormentors are, for the most part, off-page and in the past (of course the present still grapples with the past, but it’s not as painful as actually experiencing hateful acts on page”