{"id":3990,"date":"2015-04-24T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3990"},"modified":"2015-04-19T15:33:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T19:33:02","slug":"friday-reads-the-dukes-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3990","title":{"rendered":"Friday Reads: The Duke&#8217;s Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last couple of weeks, I have been on a Grace Burrowes kick, and what a fun kick it has been. Whether writing Regency, Victorian, or modern romance, Ms. Burrowes always \u00c2\u00a0delivers a wonderful story and characters I fall in love with. This week&#8217;s sample, her latest Regency, THE DUKE&#8217;S DISASTER is no exception. I am loving every minute of it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51CNa0TbHUL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-v3-big,TopRight,0,-55_SX278_SY278_PIkin4,BottomRight,1,22_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dukes-Disaster-Grace-Burrowes-ebook\/dp\/B00ORXKTL6\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1429471634&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+duke%27s+disaster\">The Duke&#8217;s Disaster by Grace Burrowes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Book Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Noah Winters, Duke of Anselm, exercises the pragmatism for which he&#8217;s infamous when his preferred choice of bride cries off, and her companion, Lady Thea Collins, becomes his next choice for his duchess. Lady Thea&#8217;s mature, sensible and even rather attractive-what could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n<p>As a lady fallen on hard times, Thea doesn&#8217;t expect tender sentiments from His Grace, but she does wish Noah had courted her trust, lest her past turn their hastily arranged marriage into a life of shared regrets. Is His Grace courting a convenient wife, or a beautiful disaster?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Praise for Grace Burrowes:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Burrowes has a knack for giving fresh twists to genre tropes and developing them in unexpected and delightful directions [with] consistently excellent writing, deep and layered stories, and intelligent and compassionate characters.&#8221; &#8211;<em>Publishers Weekly<\/em><br \/>\n&#8220;Warmth, sensuality, and humor infuse Burrowes&#8217; writing.&#8221; &#8211;<em>Booklist<\/em><br \/>\n&#8220;Burrowes continues to captivate and enchant!&#8221; &#8211;<em>Fresh Fiction<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last couple of weeks, I have been on a Grace Burrowes kick, and what a fun kick it has been. Whether writing Regency, Victorian, or modern romance, Ms. Burrowes always \u00c2\u00a0delivers a wonderful story and characters I fall in love with. This week&#8217;s sample, her latest Regency, THE DUKE&#8217;S DISASTER is no exception. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3990\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Reads: The Duke&#8217;s Disaster<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3990"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3994,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions\/3994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}