A Lady For a Duke: a swoonworthy historical romance from the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material

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This feels like a 'director cut' of an already epic story with all the trimmings—do not rush through it and enjoy the journey. It’s a friends-to-lovers romance, and while one of the characters is a trans woman, it never feels like it’s about that.

He has excruciating physical pain from a leg injury sustained at Waterloo, but it’s his mental state that is the most perilous.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The side characters are an absolute delight, and the ending is everything I could have wished for Viola and Gracewood as a couple. For those who were fans of Boyfriend Material, it's worth noting that A Lady for a Duke is tonally quite different.

Hall has crafted a story that centers Viola as a trans woman in the most beautiful, affirming, and empowering way. The latter was sometimes a hinderance, especially in the middle where it felt like everything else happening distracted from the actual romance and it did fall a bit flat in the middle, but it picked right back up with a happy balance of sweet and angsty. It absolutely eviscerated my emotions and left a permanent mark on my soul, which will be forever changed just by knowing that this book exists.Reluctantly, she befriends the duke and she is both relieved and disappointed that he doesn't recognize her immediately. Justin de Vere, Duke of Gracewood, hides in the country, debilitated by symptoms of PTSD, terrible war injuries, and an addiction to laudanum and alcohol.