{"id":30253,"date":"2023-05-25T10:04:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T14:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=30253"},"modified":"2023-05-25T10:04:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T14:04:32","slug":"review-the-duchess-takes-a-husband-by-harper-st-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/25\/review-the-duchess-takes-a-husband-by-harper-st-george\/","title":{"rendered":"Review \u2764\ufe0f The Duchess Takes a Husband by Harper St. George"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-30253\" data-postid=\"30253\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-30253 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t\t\t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_zij8333 tb_first tf_w tf_clearfix\">\n\t    \t\t\t<div class=\"row_inner col_align_top gutter-narrow tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n\t\t            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-1 tb_2pe1333 first\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_tgj3333 rounded drop-shadow customBorderRad_top image-center auto_fullwidth tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n\t\t    <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/the-duchess-takes-a-husband-harper-st-george.jpeg?resize=310%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-30254\" title=\"the-duchess-takes-a-husband-harper-st-george\" alt=\"the-duchess-takes-a-husband-harper-st-george\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/the-duchess-takes-a-husband-harper-st-george.jpeg?w=310&amp;ssl=1 310w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/the-duchess-takes-a-husband-harper-st-george.jpeg?resize=186%2C300&amp;ssl=1 186w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/the-duchess-takes-a-husband-harper-st-george.jpeg?resize=400%2C645&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/>\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n    \t<\/div>\n<!-- \/module image --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_9111333 customBorderRad_bottom repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Despite her illustrious title, Camille, Duchess of Hereford, remains what she has always been\u2014a pariah. Though her title means she\u2019s technically accepted by London Society, the rebellious widow with her burgeoning interest in the suffrage movement and her American ways isn\u2019t exactly high on every hostess\u2019s guest list. But Camille starts to wonder if being an outcast is not without its perks when the tantalizing answer to her secret fear appears in the shape of Jacob Thorne, the illegitimate son of an earl and co-owner of London\u2019s infamous Montague Club.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Jacob is used to making deals with his club members\u2014he\u2019s just not accustomed to them being beautiful women. Nor have the terms ever been so sweetly seductive as Camille\u2019s shocking proposition. To finally buy his own club and gain the crucial backing of investors, Camille offers Jacob the respectability of a fake engagement with a duchess. In return, the tempting widow has one condition: she wants Jacob to show her if it\u2019s possible for her to experience pleasure in bed.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">The lure of such a bargain proves too delicious to resist, drawing the enterprising rogue and the wallflower duchess into a scandalous game and an even more dangerous gamble of the heart.<\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-2 tb_gud7333 last\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_hmx9333  repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25881 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smitten-recommends-banner-1.png?resize=296%2C72\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> May 23, 2023<br \/><strong>Series:<\/strong> <em>Gilded Age Heiresses<br \/><\/em><strong>Book:\u00a0<\/strong>4<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong> Sensual<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Macmillan<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong> St. Martin&#8217;s Press<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $8.99<\/p><hr \/><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Tropes:<\/strong> <em>Widow, Anti-Hero, Class Difference, Lessons, Fake Relationship, Best Friend&#8217;s Brother-in-Law\/Sister-in-Law&#8217;s Best Friend<\/em><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">American heiress <strong>Camille<\/strong>, now Dowager Duchess of Hereford, was bartered in exchange as old as time: money for title. Now that her emotionally abusive husband is dead, Camille sets out to conquer a fear with the help of her best friend&#8217;s brother-in-law, illegitimate club owner <strong>Jacob Thorne<\/strong>. Jacob has a dilemma of his own, accidentally telling potential business partners that he has a fianc\u00e9e in order to close a deal. Can the two help each other achieve their goals without getting attached?<\/p><p>This is the fourth and final book in the <em>Gilded Age Heiresses<\/em> series. I highly recommend reading books one and two of this series because they establish Camille&#8217;s ill-treatment and lay the foundation for the tone of this book. There is a sadness to Camille&#8217;s story that is completely appropriate but better felt when you have the weight of the other stories behind it.<\/p><p>From the blurb, I thought this novel might portray Camille as a widow ready to throw off the shackles of her marriage and engage in an affair, but the pace of this book is actually slower because Camille had a lot of trauma to overcome. I really like how Jacob misread the situation, too, and assumed he could &#8220;fix it&#8221; with good sex. That was not the case, and he became incredibly supportive and consent-driven. I also liked how the suffragette storyline tied into Camille&#8217;s history as a widow denied rights, with little knowledge of her marriage contract and a surviving heir that wanted to keep her as confined and helpless as her husband did. Overall, it was a well-layered story, and I am super excited about the spin-off series!<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Leslie<\/em><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_hz5y333 customBorderRad repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3oyRpK3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/3BYyv2l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">iBooks<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-duchess-takes-a-husband-harper-st-george\/1141756774?ean=9780593440995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">B&amp;N<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/the-duchess-takes-a-husband\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">Kobo<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Harper_St_George_The_Duchess_Takes_a_Husband?id=yXF6EAAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">Google Play<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n            \t    <\/div>\n\t    <!-- \/row_inner -->\n\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/module_row -->\n\t<\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite her illustrious title, Camille, Duchess of Hereford, remains what she has always been\u2014a pariah. 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Though her title means she\u2019s technically accepted by London Society, the rebellious widow with her burgeoning interest in the suffrage movement and her American ways isn\u2019t exactly high on every hostess\u2019s guest list. But Camille starts to wonder if being an outcast is not without its perks when the tantalizing answer to her secret fear appears in the shape of Jacob Thorne, the illegitimate son of an earl and co-owner of London\u2019s infamous Montague Club.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Jacob is used to making deals with his club members\u2014he\u2019s just not accustomed to them being beautiful women. Nor have the terms ever been so sweetly seductive as Camille\u2019s shocking proposition. To finally buy his own club and gain the crucial backing of investors, Camille offers Jacob the respectability of a fake engagement with a duchess. In return, the tempting widow has one condition: she wants Jacob to show her if it\u2019s possible for her to experience pleasure in bed.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The lure of such a bargain proves too delicious to resist, drawing the enterprising rogue and the wallflower duchess into a scandalous game and an even more dangerous gamble of the heart.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smitten-recommends-banner-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> May 23, 2023<br \/><strong>Series:<\/strong> <em>Gilded Age Heiresses<br \/><\/em><strong>Book:\u00a0<\/strong>4<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong> Sensual<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Macmillan<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong> St. Martin's Press<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $8.99<\/p><hr \/><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Tropes:<\/strong> <em>Widow, Anti-Hero, Class Difference, Lessons, Fake Relationship, Best Friend's Brother-in-Law\/Sister-in-Law's Best Friend<\/em><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">American heiress <strong>Camille<\/strong>, now Dowager Duchess of Hereford, was bartered in exchange as old as time: money for title. Now that her emotionally abusive husband is dead, Camille sets out to conquer a fear with the help of her best friend's brother-in-law, illegitimate club owner <strong>Jacob Thorne<\/strong>. Jacob has a dilemma of his own, accidentally telling potential business partners that he has a fianc\u00e9e in order to close a deal. Can the two help each other achieve their goals without getting attached?<\/p><p>This is the fourth and final book in the <em>Gilded Age Heiresses<\/em> series. I highly recommend reading books one and two of this series because they establish Camille's ill-treatment and lay the foundation for the tone of this book. There is a sadness to Camille's story that is completely appropriate but better felt when you have the weight of the other stories behind it.<\/p><p>From the blurb, I thought this novel might portray Camille as a widow ready to throw off the shackles of her marriage and engage in an affair, but the pace of this book is actually slower because Camille had a lot of trauma to overcome. I really like how Jacob misread the situation, too, and assumed he could \"fix it\" with good sex. That was not the case, and he became incredibly supportive and consent-driven. I also liked how the suffragette storyline tied into Camille's history as a widow denied rights, with little knowledge of her marriage contract and a surviving heir that wanted to keep her as confined and helpless as her husband did. Overall, it was a well-layered story, and I am super excited about the spin-off series!<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Leslie<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3oyRpK3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/3BYyv2l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iBooks<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-duchess-takes-a-husband-harper-st-george\/1141756774?ean=9780593440995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B&amp;N<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/the-duchess-takes-a-husband\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kobo<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Harper_St_George_The_Duchess_Takes_a_Husband?id=yXF6EAAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30253"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30266,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30253\/revisions\/30266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}