HAPPY BOOK WEEK: ONE NIGHT OF TEMPTATION (WICKED DUKES CLUB) BY DARCY BURKE
A debutante launches a dangerous plan to save herself from an unwanted marriage and ends up in the arms of a sexy rector who vows to protect her from everything except temptation...
One Night of Temptation
Blog Tour: June 26-28, 2019
Book Information:
Title: One Night of Temptation
Release Date: 6/25/19
Author: Darcy Burke
Series: Wicked Dukes Club, book 6
Available Format: ebook, mass market print
ISBN: 9781944576516
ASIN: B07NDJSG4T
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SYNOPSIS
Faced with a marriage she can’t abide, Lady Penelope Wakefield takes drastic measures to preserve her freedom. Her brilliant plan is foolproof until a sexy but imperious rector “rescues” her.
Rector Hugh Tarleton has no patience for the Society philanthropists who seek to bestow their pity—and not much else—on his oppressed flock in one of London’s worst neighborhoods. When the daughter of a marquess is kidnapped and brought to the rookery, he vows to protect her, but the temptation to surrender to their mutual desire will certainly ruin them both.
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REVIEW: ONE NIGHT OF TEMPTATION (WICKED DUKES CLUB) BY DARCY BURKE
One Night of Temptation by Darcy Burke
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
One Night of Temptation is a reminder of why I continue to be a Darcy Burke fan. Burke doesn't write damsels in distress. Her characters are fierce women determined not to be victimized. Lady Penelope is a she - ro in every sense of the word. She fights her own battles, lives her own truth and gives her heart completely. When life throws her a curveball, she refuses to surrender. Until love takes the choice right out of her hands. Hugh is not in her plans, but this spirited duo heated up the pages as they thundered their way into my heart.
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One Night of Temptation by Darcy Burke
Excerpt:
I told you I wouldn’t leave you again, and I meant it.”
She retreated back fully into her seat and curled her hand around the glass of brandy. “But you will leave me.”
He thought he detected a note of disappointment. Did that mean she was as loath for their connection to end as he was? “I must leave you, but I won’t disappear. Surely you’ll come to the church again. Maybe you’ll even attend a service.”
She hesitated. “I can’t promise any of that. I’m not entirely certain what my parents will do upon my return. There is every chance my father will send me to his cousin in Lancashire.”
He heard the hope in her voice even as he suffered a flash of dismay. Lancashire was quite far. He’d never see her again.
“Maybe I’ll be able to come to a service before I go. I’d like to see you in the pulpit.” She fixed him with an interested stare, her head tilting slightly. “Why did you decide to become a rector?”
“As the third son of a third son of a viscount, there are not many options. My family wanted me to pursue a military career, but by the time I was nine, I was already more interested in helping save lives than taking them.”
“Why not become a surgeon?”
“I thought about that too, but I wanted to help more than people’s bodies. I wanted to help their souls.” He’d grieved terribly when his mother had died, and there’d been little comfort for him.
“Their souls,” she whispered. “That’s lovely.”
He hadn’t really thought of it that way, but hearing her say it with reverence and admiration made him think it was possible, if not true. “I don’t know if it is, but it seemed…necessary. To me, anyway. My family is hardworking, and they thought I should aspire higher than joining the clergy. As you mentioned earlier, the profession doesn’t always have a reputation for diligence.”
“Surely they knew you would be a different sort of clergyman.”
“That didn’t stop them from thinking I would be a better soldier, or maybe a barrister.” He leaned against the back of his chair. “They learned to accept it.”
“Who is ‘they’?” she asked. “You mentioned your mother earlier. Your father? Your older brothers?”
He thought of his family, whom he only saw perhaps once a year, or even less. They wrote, however, and there was a stalwart sort of love, even if it was never mentioned. “My father died about five years ago. I’ve two older brothers, an older sister, and a younger sister. They’re all wed with families of their own.”
“They had no trouble finding spouses—unlike you,” she observed. “Not that you’re having trouble.”
“Not trouble, no. I just haven’t made it a priority. Maybe because I haven’t met a woman who’s prompted me to make it a priority.” He didn’t mean it in a flirtatious way or to insinuate she might be such a woman, but he couldn’t help but think of the possibility… Which was absurd. She was the daughter of a marquess, and, ruined or not, she wouldn’t be allowed to marry the rector of St. Giles.
She nodded in understanding. “I haven’t either—met a man, I mean.” She turned her head and stared out the window, her hands gripping the brandy glass. “I just want to find the right person.”
His body thrummed with expectation. “I want that too.”
Author Bio:
Darcy Burke is the USA Today Bestselling Author of sexy, emotional historical and contemporary romance. Darcy wrote her first book at age 11, a happily ever after about a swan addicted to magic and the female swan who loved him, with exceedingly poor illustrations. Join her Reader Group at https://www.darcyburke.com/join-my-reader-group/.
A native Oregonian, Darcy lives on the edge of wine country with her guitar-strumming husband, their two hilarious kids who seem to have inherited the writing gene, two Bengal cats and a third cat named after a fruit.
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