The Duchess War
Courtney Milan · 2012
A wallflower with dangerous secrets meets a duke who publishes radical pamphlets. Smart, feminist historical romance that respects its readers.
The case against
Victorian costume, contemporary furniture: Milan's duke moonlights as a seditious pamphleteer, her wallflower is a chess prodigy in disguise, and everyone's politics align suspiciously well with a present-day reader's. Conflicts get talked through so reasonably that the tension drains out the bottom. If you want the nineteenth century in your historical romance, this is the twenty-first in crinolines.
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