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Overview

He's at her service . . .

Though she can't afford the coal to heat her drafty Mayfair mansion, Felicity Langley still clings to her dream of marrying a duke—one she's had since her very first curtsy. After all, she's been promised to the very lofty Duke of Hollindrake for the last four years. Now all she has to do is meet him. But what Felicity doesn't realize is that she has met her duke—he's the altogether too handsome man who Felicity has just mistaken . . . for her new footman!

By rights, Thatcher should immediately set this presumptuous chit straight and tell her he has no intention of honoring the arranged betrothal. But he's quickly smitten by Felicity's delightful determination, her irrepressible charm . . . and her breathtaking sensuality. Yes, she'd wed him in an instant were his true identity revealed—but Thatcher's vowed to marry only for love. So begins his deception and his conquest of this uncommon woman who doesn't believe in romance, but is about to find her heart and passion set aflame by the unlikely man she's sworn to resist.

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A young society dame with a flair for matchmaking does whatever it takes to ensure her eclectic family's well-being in Boyle's latest Regency romance. After four years of corresponding with her nearly betrothed, the beautiful and resourceful Miss Felicity Langley is poised finally to meet Aubrey, the newly titled duke of Hollingsworth-and gain the wealth to take care of her family's financial woes. What Felicity doesn't know is that her pen pal all along has actually been Aubrey's scheming, ruthless grandfather; the real Aubrey, meanwhile, has been serving as an army captain under the name Thatcher, having denounced his inheritance a dozen years before. Returning to Sussex, Aubrey learns of the duke's arrangement with Felicity and decides to break all ties with her. But when he meets her, as Thatcher, setting off immediate sparks, both face a secret dilemma: Aubrey torn between taking a stand and giving in to love, and Felicity between overwhelming passion and the long-distance relationship she believes will save her family. A terrific crew of supporting characters keep afloat the mistaken-identity plot, making this a full, satisfying read with emotion and laughs throughout. (Sept.)

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780060784034
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 8/28/2007
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • Sales rank: 286,971
  • Series: Avon Historical Romance Series
  • Product dimensions: 4.18 (w) x 6.75 (h) x 0.96 (d)

Meet the Author

Elizabeth Boyle

Elizabeth Boyle has always loved romance and now lives it each and every day by writing adventurous and passionate stories that readers from all around the world have described as "page-turners." Since first being published in 1996, she's seen her books become New York Times and USA Today bestsellers and won the RWA RITA® Award and a Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award. She resides in Seattle with her husband and two sons, or "heroes in training" as she likes to call them.

First Chapter

Love Letters From a Duke

Chapter One

Aubrey Michael Thomas Sterling, Marquess of Standon
b. 1780, third son of Lord Charles Sterling
Current residence: believed to be Bythorne Castle

Notes: Lord Standon poses a dilemma, for very little is known of him (though there are persistent and unsubstantiated rumors of youthful and rakish indiscretions). However, he must have reformed upon his elevation to the marquisate, for he is never mentioned in the society columns, the Gentleman's Magazine or any other reliable form of gossip. As such there is very little to recommend him other than the indisputable fact that he is the Duke of Hollindrake's heir.

—An excerpt from the Bachelor Chronicles

Mayfair, London
January 1814

"Oh, heavens, Tally, this is terrible news," Miss Felicity Langley announced to her sister Thalia, who was seated across the sitting room.

"What is it?" her twin replied, looking up from her sketch pad.

Felicity set down the copy of the Times she'd been reading and sighed. "Lord Garner died."

"No!" Tally got up from her chair by the window, and as she rose, her little black dog, Brutus, rose as well, stretching out his legs and yawning before he followed his beloved mistress as she crossed the room to see the account for herself. "A riding accident! How dreadful."

"Terrible luck," Felicity muttered as she dipped her quill into the ink pot and proceeded to strike Lord Garner's name from the open journal before her.

"Heavens, that's the fifth bachelor this winter to expire," Tally said as she watched her sisterdraw a series of lines through her careful reckoning of the now deceased baron's life and holdings.

"Actually the sixth."

After giving her head a few woeful shakes, Tally asked, "This Lord Garner, he was rather old, wasn't he?"

"Nearly forty."

Her nose wrinkled. "Positively ancient. You should have crossed him out years ago." The twins had just turned one and twenty not a fortnight earlier, and Tally especially considered any man not in his twenties to be nothing short of a Methuselah.

"Ancient or not, one cannot overlook twelve thousand a year."

Her twin shrugged, then glanced back at the paper. "An heir worth noting?"

"A lad of seven."

A tsk, tsk was her sister's only reply, for she knew this meant that the new Lord Garner would have to wait another ten years before he could even be considered eligible for inclusion in Felicity's infamous Bachelor Chronicles.

Not that any man in his right mind would want to find himself inside the pages of such a journal. The Bachelor Chronicles, as they'd been dubbed by her classmates at Miss Emery's school, was far from being the giggling, foolish musings of a title-mad young lady, but rather a meticulously researched encyclopedia of every eligible bachelor in the ton.

A volume of Debrett's could give you lineage and a family motto. The Bachelor Chronicles could tell you if the man had a penchant for drink and late night rambles through the wilds of Seven Dials. Mr. Billingsworth's guidebooks and histories would give you an effusive and flowery travelogue of the man's holdings and properties, but Felicity's encyclopedia of dilettantes and Corinthians revealed the true condition of the roof and whether or not the walls were buttressed by mortgages or mortar.

Dukes to barons, knighted gentlemen and even a few men of means were given her discerning perusal. Even second sons and distant heirs found their way into the Chronicles, because, as Felicity was wont to say, "One day a spare, the next an heir."

To accomplish all this, she spent the first few hours of each day scouring the Times, the Globe, and of course the Morning Post, as well as the latest volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine, the Ladies Magazine, and The Ladies Fashionable Cabinet, looking for information that would necessitate addendums or corrections to her Chronicles.

What she couldn't glean from the regular publications, she gathered by contacting Miss Emery's former students. A voluminous correspondence with these ladies, most of them having married into the loftiest families in society, gave her insights into her quarry that unfortunately never found their way into print.

"Tally, I am rethinking Pippin's future again," she said after she'd carefully blotted the wet X running across Lord Garner's entry.

"Oh, Duchess, not again," Tally protested, using her favorite nickname for her sister.

Felicity waved off her sister's objection. "I'm more inclined to see our cousin with Lord Elmsley than the Earl of Darlton. I've just been informed by the viscount's mother's second cousin's wife that Elmsley carries a bit of the romantic tragic about him, which would fit quite nicely with Pippin's current state—"

Tally groaned. Loudly. "Don't do this," she told her sister. "Leave Pippin be."

"Whyever for?"

"Because our poor cousin hasn't been the same since . . . well, you know."

Felicity heaved a sigh. "Her father's death was untimely to say the least, and the shocking state of his finances even worse, but I daresay it is high time that she—"

"Stop!" Her sister threw her hands up. "Sometimes I wonder if you even have a heart. I'm not talking about her father. I'm talking about him." Tally lowered her voice to a whisper. "Captain Dashwell."

"That pirate?" Felicity exclaimed. "I won't hear that name mentioned again. Not in this house. Oh, how I wish the devil would take him to the bottom of the sea! Pippin was such a sensible creature before that wastrel kissed her."

Four years earlier, during Felicity's first matchmaking endeavor, she, Tally, and Pippin had become entangled in more than assisting their teacher, Miss Porter, find her heart's desire with the rakish Jack Tremont—rather, they'd discovered themselves in the middle of an elaborate network of spies and espionage, and had stood in for Jack when their misadventures accidentally landed him in prison.

And that one night had changed their lives forever—ending with Pippin being kissed by a young American sea captain, Thomas Dashwell, as they exchanged gold for . . .

Love Letters From a Duke. Copyright © by Elizabeth Boyle. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

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  • Posted October 4, 2009

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    Shockingly wonderful..

    I enjoyed reading this book. The story rolled on from This Rake of Mine. That book was pretty much the beginning of this series. This one is about Felicity. She has her heart set that she will be the Duchess of Hollindrake. But that may not be the case since she is falling in love with her new footman! O but this book is just amazing, Elizabeth Boyle knows how to keep you turning the pages. I could not put this book down. I love her writing and will continue to buy her books.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 3, 2012

    Okay

    This book wasn't terrible but it wasn't great either. It has some interesting parts in it, but for the most part I had to fight to get through it. The main problem for me was the heroine. I found it impossible to like her and so I didn't really care what happened to her. In the future I will stay away from books by Elizabeth Boyle, I think, because while I have read some good books by her the most recent ones I have read I have been disappointed with.

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  • Posted August 26, 2011

    Loved it!

    Loved the book. Read the second and will be getting the last soon. Great love story, developed characters you grow to care about and another winner by a favorite author!

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  • Posted July 20, 2011

    Book 3 - Felicity & Captain Thatcher a/k/a Duke of Hollindrake

    Book 1 - Something about Emmaline Book 2 - This Rake if Mine ---------- The story was cute and had a good plot of mistaken identity. Although, I did like the first two book a bit more.

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  • Posted September 30, 2009

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    Fantastic Story!

    Loved It! Could not put it down!
    Romantic, Wonderful Story!

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  • Posted September 17, 2009

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    A rollicking, delightful romance of mistaken identity, this is Felicity (aka Duchess) Langley's story and her inspired use of her Bachelors Chronicles.

    Felicity and her twin Thalia and cousin Pippin (she's nursing a secret love for an American pirate from This Rake of Mine) with virtually no money creatively contrive to take up residence in London. In fact, given their unique upbringing and experiences as an offbeat diplomat's daughters and niece, these three are decidedly unconventional. Felicity has been in a long correspondence with her duke, Hollindrake, who is captivated by her offbeat charm and has a betrothal understanding with her. Felicity doesn't know that he's the Hollindrake grandfather, not the current Duke. So she's in London to cement the betrothal. Aubrey Sterling aka Thatcher and new Duke, immediately calls on Felicity to set things straight, but she thinks he's the new footman. Each time he tries to reveal himself an event happens to keep him by her side. Soon the marriage-shy ex-soldier realizes that he has an opportunity to get to know the 'real' Felicity, who captivates him by her sincerity, joy of life, loyalty, kindness, et al. But he wants her to love him as a man, not as a Duke. Felicity is dismayed that the duke hasn't called on her and that she's falling for her footman (!) who is honorable, heroic, and handsome, and struggles against it, feeling responsible for securing good marriages for Tally and Pippin. But marry for love she does. The Duke's ball is the big event where the deception should be, but isn't, forgiven. Everyone to the lovers' rescue: Temple and Diana; Jack and Miranda; Tally and Pippin; and the duke's mother, herself.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 31, 2009

    Even better than the jacket indicates

    I love Elizabeth Boyle and was not certain about this books premise. Seemed like it was just another in a long line of the same. It is not though. The letters are between the former duke and this young lady in finishing school. The old man croaks and his grandson inherits. The sire was courting the young landy for the grandson but the young lady does not know this. When the grandson goes to the house to break things off with the young lady he gets mistaken for their cheap footman as they are banking on getting funds from the marriage having sold everything just to get to London so as not to get ignored by the duke's promises of marriage. Well, the duke does not tell her who he is and so begins the story. Great quick lively read!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 7, 2008

    I absolutely loved it!!!

    It was well written, moved along at a nice pace, had excellent characters, and a witty sense of humour. It was almost impossible to put down. I recommend this book to anyone and everyone!

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  • Posted December 9, 2008

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    In 1814 London impoverished Felicity Langley may not have a pence for a piece of coal, but still hopes her duke will come forth to marry her. Specifically, four years ago Felicity was promised as the intended of the haughty Duke of Hollindrake, but he has done nothing to even meet her. She decides she must introduce herself to her betrothed.------------- Felicity thinks Thatcher is her new footman. In fact he is the Duke she never met. He knows he is out of character for a staid aristocrat who loathes scandal, but he fails to correct her mistake though he cannot fathom why not. To his shock, he falls in love with Felicity, whose enthusiasm and charm makes him feel good. However, he knows she would marry the Duke in an instant, but what about the footman for he vows to only wed someone who loves him not his title.--------------- Thatcher is a fabulous protagonist who knows he must have an heir and a spare, but would rather allow the dukedom to expire than to settle for anything less than love. He knows he loves Felicity, but doubts she reciprocates as her obsessive objective is a title. Fans will appreciate Elizabeth Boyle¿s fantastic historical as we hope breathlessly that she will admit she loves the footman and if she does when she learns he is the duke will she still want to be with him in spite of his deception.----------------- Harriet Klausner

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