The Prince: A Devil's Duke Novel

by Katharine Ashe

Overview

The temptation of her lips…

Libby Shaw refuses to accept society’s dictates. She’s determined to become a member of Edinburgh’s all-male Royal College of Surgeons. Disguising herself as a man, she attends the surgical theater and fools everyone—except the one man who has never forgotten the shape of her exquisitely sensual lips.

…will make a prince say yes to her every desire

Forced to leave his home as a boy, famed portraitist Ziyaeddin is secretly the exiled prince of a distant realm. When he first met Libby, he memorized every detail of her face and drew her. But her perfect lips gave him trouble—the same lips he now longs to kiss. When Libby asks his help to hide her feminine identity from the world, Ziyaeddin agrees on one condition: she must sit for him to paint—as a woman. But what begins as a daring scheme could send them both hurtling toward danger…and an unparalleled love.

Best Romances of the Month, Amazon Editors’ Choice

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062641748
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	05/29/2018
Series:	Devil's Duke Series , #4
Pages:	432
Sales rank:	577,247
Product dimensions:	4.10(w) x 6.70(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Katharine Ashe is the award-winning author of historical romances that reviewers call “intensely lush” and “sensationally intelligent,” including How to Be a Proper Lady, an Amazon Editors’ Choice for the 10 Best Books of the Year in Romance, and My Lady, My Lord and How to Marry a Highlander, 2015 and 2014 finalists for the prestigious RITA® Award of the Romance Writers of America. Her books are recommended by Publishers Weekly, Women’s World Magazine, Booklist, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Barnes & Noble, and many others, and translated into languages across the world.

Katharine lives in the wonderfully warm Southeast with her beloved husband, son, dog, and a garden she likes to call romantic rather than unkempt. A professor of European History, she writes fiction because she thinks modern readers deserve grand adventures and breathtaking sensuality too. For more about Katharine’s books, please visit her website or write to her at PO Box 51702, Durham, NC 27717.

Editorial Reviews

★ 03/26/2018
Ashe strikes gold in her fourth Devil’s Duke Regency (after The Duke), giving minor characters from earlier books their own sensuous story. Twenty-year-old Miss Elizabeth “Libby” Shaw, adamantly determined to become a surgeon despite strictures against women practicing medicine, convinces exiled Mediterranean prince and portrait artist Ziyaeddin Mirza to let her board with him so that she may attend surgical school disguised as a man. Although her successful ruse, skill, and dedication catapult her to the head of the class, she makes no headway convincing Ziyaeddin to allow her to construct a suitable prosthesis for his amputated foot, and he cannot persuade her to remain silent while she sits for him, the one form of payment he requests. Stakes run high for each of them—Ziyaeddin will soon be called home to run his small kingdom, Tabir, and Libby knows a discovery of her secret will cost her the career she yearns for. Ashe allows desire to build slowly between the two, giving them time to demonstrate goodness, honor, and love before they act on their long-simmering passions. A subplot involving murdered women and grave-robbing adds mystery to this thoroughly pleasurable historical. (May)

Publishers Weekly

Few romance novelists can conjure such lush, erotic stories alongside substantial historical detail and moral heft. … enthralls and impresses up to the last page.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

 “Ashe strikes gold in … this thoroughly pleasurable historical.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Everything about this union sparkles... If this novel doesn’t make you swoon, I don’t know what will.” — All About Romance (Desert Isle Keeper)

“Ashe is a consummate storyteller able to transport readers into her novels because she creates such unique characters and then puts them into unconventional plots...the sexual tension and the character growth is marvelous to watch.” — RT Book Reviews (4 Stars)

“Sparkling repartee ... a delectable summertime read.” — Library Journal

“Ashe deftly infuses some fascinating bits of nineteenth-century history into the fourth top notch addition to her Devil’s Duke series, while at the same time delivering her trademark captivating characters and heart-melting passion.” — Booklist

“The steady, careful character development Ashe devoted herself to earlier in the novel pays off in spades, as readers will find themselves desperately anxious that these two amazing people find their way to happily ever after.” — BookPage

 “Wonderful, heartbreaking, amazing... Ashe just keeps getting better and better.” — Night Owl Review (Top Pick)

“A lush and dazzling love story.” — BookPage

“This is an incomparable romance. It is incomparable historical fiction. And it is wordsmithing of the finest kind.” — Angieville

“[A]n emotionally intense story of two complex people who are more than the labels others would use to define them ... this is an extraordinary book even from this talented author … I highly recommend The Prince.” — Janga @ The Romance Dish (Best of the Year)

From the Publisher

Ashe is a consummate storyteller able to transport readers into her novels because she creates such unique characters and then puts them into unconventional plots...the sexual tension and the character growth is marvelous to watch.

RT Book Reviews (4 Stars)

The steady, careful character development Ashe devoted herself to earlier in the novel pays off in spades, as readers will find themselves desperately anxious that these two amazing people find their way to happily ever after.

BookPage

This is an incomparable romance. It is incomparable historical fiction. And it is wordsmithing of the finest kind.

Angieville

Ashe deftly infuses some fascinating bits of nineteenth-century history into the fourth top notch addition to her Devil’s Duke series, while at the same time delivering her trademark captivating characters and heart-melting passion.

Booklist

Everything about this union sparkles... If this novel doesn’t make you swoon, I don’t know what will.

All About Romance (Desert Isle Keeper)

Wonderful, heartbreaking, amazing... Ashe just keeps getting better and better.

Night Owl Review (Top Pick)

Ashe deftly infuses some fascinating bits of nineteenth-century history into the fourth top notch addition to her Devil’s Duke series, while at the same time delivering her trademark captivating characters and heart-melting passion.

Booklist

[A]n emotionally intense story of two complex people who are more than the labels others would use to define them ... this is an extraordinary book even from this talented author … I highly recommend The Prince.

Janga @ The Romance Dish (Best of the Year)

★ 2018-05-29
Two outcasts find each other hiding in plain sight—and fall in love.When they run into each other in an Edinburgh bookshop, Ibrahim Kent and Joseph Smart have just one thing in common: Neither of them are who they claim to be. Joseph Smart is actually Elizabeth Shaw, better known as Libby, a smart society lady who wants so badly to be a doctor that she is dressing up as a man to attend lectures at Surgeons' Hall. And Ibrahim, known as "the Turk" and posing as a society portraitist, is actually Ziyaeddin Mirza, Prince of Tabir, in exile from his homeland for 17 years. Ziyaeddin has been enamored of Libby since first meeting her two years ago, so when she asks him to host Joseph Smart in his home, he agrees on the condition that she pose for him once a week. As she devotes every waking hour to her studies and he prepares to re-enter Tabir after its current ruler is deposed, their obsessions leave them little time together. But Libby's hour of sitting for Ziyaeddin each week crackles with chemistry and, eventually, leads to the bedchamber. Given their single-minded plans, as well as Libby's mounting battles with her mental health, it's hard to see how the two can find a happy ending together—but, as usual, Ashe finds a way. As with the three previous entries in her Devil's Duke series, she has written a remarkably complex story that historical romance readers will adore. Few romance novelists can conjure such lush, erotic stories alongside substantial historical detail and moral heft.A Georgian-era romance that enthralls and impresses up to the last page.

Kirkus Reviews