Synopsis "Bringing Down the Duke (a League of Extraordinary Women)"
'I have read the future of historical romance, and it's Evie Dunmore' EVA LEIGH, author of Dare to Love a Duke A fiercely independent vicar's daughter takes on a powerful duke in a love story that threatens to upend the British social order . . . England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford. In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising women's suffrage movement. Her charge- recruit men of influence to champion their cause. Her target - Sebastian Devereux, the cold and calculating Duke of Montgomery who steers Britain's politics at the Queen's command. Her challenge- not to give in to the powerful attraction she can't deny for the man who opposes everything she stands for. Sebastian is appalled to find a suffragist squad has infiltrated his ducal home, but the real threat is his impossible feelings for green-eyed beauty Annabelle. He is looking for a wife of equal standing to secure the legacy he has worked so hard to rebuild, not an outspoken commoner who could never be his duchess. But he wouldn't be the greatest strategist of the Kingdom if he couldn't claim this alluring bluestocking without the promise of a ring...or could he? Locked in a battle with rising passion and a will matching her own, Annabelle will learn just what it takes to topple a duke... Praise for Bringing Down the Duke 'Evie Dunmore's debut is a marvel. Set against the backdrop of the British suffrage movement, Bringing Down the Duke is a witty, richly detailed, historically significant, and achingly romantic celebration of the power of love and the passionate fight for women's rights' CHANEL CLEETON, USA Today bestselling author of Next Year in Havana, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick 'Evie Dunmore's Bringing Down the Duke dazzles and reminds us all why we fell in love with historical romance' JULIA LONDON, New York Times bestselling author of Seduced by a Scot 'Simply superb! Evie Dunmore will wow you' GAELEN FOLEY, New York Times bestselling author of Duke of Storm 'Bringing Down the Duke is the best historical romance I've read all year. I was spellbound by this story of forbidden love between a spirited, clever Suffragette heroine and her straitlaced duke . . .
