
Duchess by Design
The Gilded Age Girls Club
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · October 23, 2018
In the first novel of Maya Rodale’s enthralling new series, an English duke vows to make an American seamstress his duchess...
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- Who it’s for
- A duke’s matchmaking scheme meets a seamstress’s ambitions in Gilded Age Manhattan.
- Themes
- Romantic love, Fashion and ambition, Social class
- Genres
- Gilded-Age Romance, Victorian Romance, Royal Romance
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In the first novel of Maya Rodale’s enthralling new series, an English duke vows to make an American seamstress his duchess... In Gilded Age Manhattan, anything can happen... Seeking a wealthy American bride who can save his family’s estate, Brandon Fiennes, the duke of Kingston, is a rogue determined to do the right thing.
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But his search for an heiress goes deliciously awry when an enchanting seamstress tumbles into his arms instead. ...and true love is always in fashion Miss Adeline Black aspires to be a fashionable dressmaker—not a duchess—and not even an impossibly seductive duke will distract her. But Kingston makes an offer she can’t refuse: join him at society events to display her gowns and advise him on which heiresses are duchess material. It’s the perfect plan—as long as they resist temptation, avoid a scandal, and above all do not lose their hearts.
Fashion Meets Feeling
A duke’s matchmaking scheme meets a seamstress’s ambitions in Gilded Age Manhattan.
Come here for
- Dressmaking ambitions alongside society courtship
- A sensible plan complicated by attraction
Expect
- Playful courtship, temptation, and scandal
- A seamstress set on dressmaking, not duchesshood
Where it sits
| Gilded-Age Romance | 72% |
|---|---|
| Victorian Romance | 56% |
| Royal Romance | 48% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Victorian Romance
- American Historical Romance
- Women's Fiction
- Authors
- Maya Rodale
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- October 23, 2018
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Romantic love · Fashion and ambition · Social class
- Reading lane
- Victorian Romance