Her Night with the Duke
Written by Diana Quincy
Narrated by Zara Hampton-Brown
4/5
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About this audiobook
Desire knows no reason...
When Lady Delilah Chambers finds herself stranded at a country inn on a rain-swept evening, she’s forced to fend off a group of ruffians with the help of a handsome gentleman. Irresistibly drawn to each other, Leela and the stranger spend one reckless night in each others’ arms—and then go their separate ways. But the very next day Leela receives the shock of her life when she meets the duke who is set on wedding her beloved stepdaughter.
When it finds two destined hearts...
One night isn’t enough with a woman as fierce, fiery, and brilliant as Leela. Elliot Townsend, Duke of Huntington, cannot believe his good fortune when their chance encounter leads to an unforgettable evening of passion. Yet Hunt’s luck runs out when he is introduced to his prospective mother-in-law. Dowagers aren’t supposed to look like this...
Leela and Hunt are determined to keep each other at arm’s length, which should be easy enough for two intelligent adults with reputations to uphold. The problem is all logic is lost when it comes to a passion that refuses to be ignored.
Diana Quincy
Bestselling author Diana Quincy is an award-winning former television journalist who decided to make up stories where a happy ending is always guaranteed. Her books have been included on ""Best of"" lists in Library Journal and The Washington Post. As a U.S. Foreign Service brat, Diana grew up all over the world, but is now happily settled in Virginia with her husband and two sons. When not bent over her laptop, Diana spends time with her family, reads, practices yoga and plots her next travel adventure.
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Reviews for Her Night with the Duke
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My first book by this author!!! Loved it!!! I’m moving on to the next one!!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very entertaining and different. Enjoyed the Duke's internal struggle to decide to be with Delilah. Nice book
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I started this with an open mind and I was actually enjoying it at the beginning. But as I kept on reading, I began to see things I didn't like at all.
What bugged me the most was not believing their relationship. I kinda saw their chemistry and sexual tension (though it could've been done better) but I did not see their romantic bond AT ALL. At any point. A romance author ought to show you how the characters fall in love. Just saying so doesn't make it real.
We were almost at 80% mark and they were still saying superficial things to each other (how much they missed each other IN BED, how beautiful she was NAKED, etc).
Also: he was an asshole :) Like, I don't need to like a hero. But at the very least, I shouldn't think that it's the worst possible option for the heroine.
Another thing I didn't like was the way the author described the sex scenes. There were many descriptions that were too cringey for me.
Sadly, I won't be reading Quincy again. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Love this book! I enjoyed every bit of it. Highly recommended
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved the book and their journey to each other. Thank you
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5An interesting plot and I liked the main female character but the Duke didn’t seem to have any personality so I couldn’t see why Leela would choose him. The duke just seemed one dimensional with physical attraction being his main guiding principle.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. She was a widow, bound to no man, finally answerable to no one but herself. It was one night in the middle of nowhere. No one need ever know.First in the Clandestine Affairs series, Her Night With the Duke introduces us to widowed Delilah (Leela) and almost betrothed Elliot, the Duke of Huntington, as they both take shelter at an Inn. Due to her tawny skin color, the Innkeeper doesn't want to give her a room and the men act less than gentlemanly towards her. With her janbiya, she demonstrates she can take care of herself but Elliot still steps in to offer to share his meal and room with her. As the night goes on, these two can't fight their instant attraction anymore and they both agree to share one night together. However, when true identities get revealed, their one night has dire consequences, in more ways than one. There was no denying the truth any longer. She felt more than just a physical attraction for the Duke of Huntington.I am a frequent reader of the Regency sub-genre in romance and I think that hurt my enjoyment of this; characters and lines came off cardboard cut-out and cliche. The beginning conversation between Leela and Elliot felt stilted and with some cheesy lines, I never felt the heat and passion between the two that was supposed to lead to them jumping into the bed right away. Elliot was our Duke who likes strict schedules to prove he is not a wastrel like his late brother and would never want to do anything to cause a scandal; I could never pick him out of a romance genre Regency Duke line-up. Leela was by far the more interesting character. With her English Marquess father marrying an Arab merchant's daughter, she had a more complex background. Leela was raised completely English, her mother didn't want her to acknowledge her Arab side to try and help her fit in better, married at seventeen, and then widowed at twenty-four where she decides to travel in and around Jerusalem to meet her mother's side of the family. While Leela's penchant to use Arabic words and phrases added some much needed character freshness to this sub-genre, I struggled with how it came off forced at times because of how English she was raised and how little time she spent with her mother's family. Leela talks about her travel and we get one scene with her mother's family but I still felt like the fabric of the connection to her Arabic side was missing. “Some men enjoy flirting with danger.”The angst in the story comes from Leela and Elliot discovering after their one night together that Leela's step-daughter Tori is who Elliot was planning on becoming betrothed to. Since I didn't feel the lust or heat between them in the beginning, I had trouble feeling the angst and struggle for them to keep apart. Without feeling the emotion between the two, this fell pretty flat for me. Leela and Tori had a good relationship but Tori's stuttered pauses whenever Elliot was in the scene made them drag and Leela's step-son character, from an attempted rapist super-villain to oh was just jealous calmly talking and working together made the character so uneven. Elliot's friend Griff does sound intriguing with society murmuring that he could have killed his parents, some tortured hero angst there. “Following the rules certainly hasn’t proven satisfactory. Maybe everything in life cannot be tied up into a neat little package.”This read closer to an Avon Impulse as Leela and Elliot's interactions take place more in the bedroom than anywhere else. About halfway through, Elliot makes a plea for Leela and him to be together but she refuses and the betrothal happens. Even at midway, this felt like a betrayal to the message of how strong the emotion between Leela and Elliot was supposed to be. However, at around 70% our couple gets together and then it feels like the ending was dragged out with some compulsory emotional obstacles that if they'd just sat and had a conversation could have been resolved. I wish we could have gotten scenes with Leela's brother Alexander (he shows up once), along with more scenes with her dragoman Hashem to explore those emotional connections. Unfortunately, the romance fell flat for me in this, I found myself wanting to read more about Leela on her travels in Arabia. I missed the emotional fabric of why the characters thought and acted like they did, they felt like paper dolls moving from point A to point B. As I mentioned though, new readers to this sub-genre could have a different experience and Leela was an admirable heroine.