After one of the former orphans is killed while working as a maid for another noble family, Sophie is determined to find out what happened to her. They also both agree not to fall in love with each other… Good luck with that…Īdded to Sophie’s and Devlin’s budding romance is a murder mystery. After making her own deal, Sophie agrees to marry Devlin. If Sophie doesn’t marry him, Devlin threatens to turn the orphans out into the street and then knock the orphanage down. First, Devlin wins the deed to Sophie’s orphanage, and then he offers to give her the deed if she will marry him. Devlin also has no desire to get married but when Queen Victoria all but forces him to get married so she will back one of his business ventures, he pursues Lady Wolcott.

Though the rumors about him are a bit more scandalous than the truth. Until the Devil Duke, Devlin Markham, inserts herself into her life and proposes marriage and a business deal.ĭevlin Markham, the Duke of Huntington, has earned his reputation as the Devil Duke. Sophie, who is nearing the age where she will be considered a spinster, is quite content working at the orphanage for poor children that her mother had originally started.

After watching her mother get heartbroken time and time again thanks to her philandering father, Sophie has no desire to make the same mistake. Lady Sophie Wolcott has no desire to every get married. The novel was published by Entangled Publishing on February 26, 2018. The novel is set in Victorian Era England. THE DEVILISH DUKE is Maddison Michaels’ debut historical romance novel. And then, a few chapters later, an Earl and a Duke exchange in fisticuffs in said female protagonist’s sitting room while battling over her affections…you definitely know you’re in for a fun, romantic ride.

When a romance novel (or really any novel) opens with a Victorian-era, bluestocking, just about old enough to be considered a spinster female protagonist falling out of a tree because she climbed it to spy on the man of her dreams propose to another woman…well, you know you’ve got one interesting, captivating, and convention breaking main character. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

The devilish duke by maddison michaels