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How To Dance With a Duke <\/strong><\/span>
\nAuthor:<\/strong> Manda Collins <\/a>
\nPublisher:<\/strong> St. Martin\u2019s Press
\nPub. Date:<\/strong> January 31, 2012
\nISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-0312549244
\nPages:<\/strong> 352
\nDigital Price:<\/strong> $7.99
\nPrint Retail Price:<\/strong> $7.99
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What\u2019s a wallflower to do when she\u2019s suddenly in need of a husband? Use all the pluck and moxie she can muster to get what she wants\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Miss Cecily Hurston would much rather explore the antiquities of Egypt than the uncharted territory of marriage. But the rules of her father\u2019s exclusive academic society forbid her entrance unless she weds one of its members. To clear her ailing father\u2019s name of a scandalous rumor, Cecily needs to gain admission into the Egyptian Club\u2014and is willing to marry any old dullard to do it.<\/p>\n

Lucas Dalton, Duke of Winterson, is anything but dull. He\u2019s a dashing and decorated war hero determined to help Cecily\u2014even if that means looking the other way when she claims the dance card of Amelia Snow, this season\u2019s most sought-after beauty. But Lucas has a reason for wanting Cecily to join the Egyptian Club: His brother went missing during one of Lord Hurston\u2019s expeditions to Egypt. An alliance with the explorer\u2019s bluestocking daughter could bring Lucas closer to the truth about what happened\u2026or it could lead him to a more dangerous love than either he or Cecily could have imagined\u2026.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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REVIEW<\/strong><\/p>\n

Manda Collins<\/em> has provided a delightful read in her debut regency romance, How to Dance with a Duke<\/span> that\u2019s packed with Egyptian scholars, intrigue, treachery and love set against the backdrop of the vicious ton of fashionable London.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Collins has created a kaleidoscope of characters, motives, plots and sub plots in How to Dance with a Duke<\/strong> with the sexy allure of Egypt, antiquities, eligible bachelors and the scheming winding around it all that centers on Cecily Hurston\u2019s father, Lord Hurston and the brother (Will) of Lucas Dalton, Duke of Winterson. But it\u2019s Cecily and Lucas who become the talk of the ton as they begin spending more time together \u2013 she after a transformation from ugly duckling to sought-after beauty and he, as the returning war hero and newly named, Duke of Winterson.<\/p>\n

Their meeting is one for the books \u2013 he is heading into the Egyptian Club from which she is being thrown out and neither able to gain entry or answers to their pressing questions: he wants to find out what happened to his missing brother Will since the last Egyptian dig and she wanting to clear her father\u2019s name over suspicion that he had anything to do with Will\u2019s disappearance.<\/p>\n

Eager to secure her future and that of her father\u2019s good name, the feisty Cecily sets about \u2018debuting\u2019 in society at twenty-five to marry a club member; certain her antiquities scholar status will allow her to find and decode her father\u2019s journals. Lucas is a man on his own mission \u2013 to continue his quest to find his brother. But in order for them to do either, they must access the club and decide to join forces to do so. If she can read the meticulous journals her father coded (that are now presumed locked away) by marrying one its members, she can begin to decipher what happened to cause her father\u2019s condition and possibly learn about Will\u2019s disappearance. While the men flock to her, wading through their motives and offers proves too much for Lucas with whom she has developed a strong attachment.<\/p>\n

But, he\u2019s equally determined to have answers and is intrigued by the scholarly, attractive woman whom he now dreads marrying anyone else. A decorated and eligible duke himself, Lucas and Cecily now work as a team piecing together the puzzle that surrounds this most recent Egyptian dig and the unfolding issue of antiquities and their rightful owners.<\/p>\n

As the plot and sub-plots thicken, so does the desire between the duo. But Cecily unconvinced of her good looks thanks to a broken heart and spinsterhood of twenty-five, is wary of Lucas\u2019s true reasons. Until one night they sneak into the Egyptian Club which comprises Cecily and prompts their wedding.<\/p>\n

This fairly complex plot was very capably spun and revealed, much like the love Lucas offers Cecily. But forces at work keep the clues to the mystery they are eager to solve unfolding much like Cecily\u2019s feelings for her new husband. Along the way, other forces at work within the Egyptian Club and British Museum are determined to protect their nefarious arrangement and the chase is on. From warehouses rich with treasures to secret chambers and ducal households, the mystery not only deepens, it becomes dangerous for this headstrong couple getting closer to answers that may ultimately destroy them both.<\/p>\n

Collins provides good depth of character, emotional range and truth to the time period and English fascination with all things Egyptian. I enjoyed the read very much but noted a few things that slightly unbalanced the book for me: some very long dialogue, descriptions and narratives. Still, this book was a winner with a depth not always seen in debuts.<\/p>\n

The secondary characters were well-developed and helped move the story in the directions to bring the plot full circle and I particularly enjoyed Cecily\u2019s step-mother Violet, cousins Juliet and Madeline and thought Cecily\u2019s pitiful ex-fianc\u00e9e, David was well cast. Lucas\u2019 best friend Christian Monteith emerges to keep things interesting as a swashbuckling bachelor about town.<\/p>\n

Manda Collins<\/strong><\/em> is to be commended on her debut that is a compelling novel well-worth the read.<\/p>\n

Rating: 4 (Very Good – Highly Recommended) <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Heat-Level: 4 (Hot) <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Reviewed by<\/em> Helena<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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