Undone by the
Duke by Michelle Willingham
Secret in Silk
Book 1
Publisher
and Release Date: Montlake Romance, February
12, 2013
Victoria
has a secret...
Reclusive designer Victoria Andrews hasn't gone outside in five years, though she yearns to escape the prison of her house. She designs sensual lingerie for the most exclusive dressmaker in London, although she has never known a man's touch.
Reclusive designer Victoria Andrews hasn't gone outside in five years, though she yearns to escape the prison of her house. She designs sensual lingerie for the most exclusive dressmaker in London, although she has never known a man's touch.
A Duke in
disguise...
Wounded and stranded in Scotland, Jonathan Nottoway, the Duke of Worthingstone, is avoiding the murderous scandal that darkened his family name. As his wounds heal, he spends several sensual nights with the beautiful seamstress who knows nothing of his true identity.
Wounded and stranded in Scotland, Jonathan Nottoway, the Duke of Worthingstone, is avoiding the murderous scandal that darkened his family name. As his wounds heal, he spends several sensual nights with the beautiful seamstress who knows nothing of his true identity.
A
passionate awakening
Can a woman trapped by her emotional scars be able to love a duke, when it means abandoning her safe world to embrace the life of a duchess?
Can a woman trapped by her emotional scars be able to love a duke, when it means abandoning her safe world to embrace the life of a duchess?
Time & Setting: Regency, Scotland &
England
Heat Level: 2
Rating 4 Gold Crowns
Rating 4 Gold Crowns
Review by Vikki
I’m so pleased I found this book through the Kindle Unlimited
program. I thoroughly enjoyed this excellent tale of overcoming fear and
finding a new world opened to explore. I’m not speaking of travel, even though some
travel is involved, but of an emotional journey. The pacing of the story is steady,
and kept me turning the pages, so I could find out what would happen next. I’m
not going to recap the story, since I feel the book blurb does this extremely
well.
Ms. Willingham brings her scenes to life, allowing me to
enter and feel as if I’m part of the action. Her writing is deeply emotional, and
the heroine feels intense longing, passion and abandonment as she fights to
conquer her overwhelming fear of the outdoors. I truly felt the fear that
Victoria experienced when she attempts to go outside for the first time in five
years, her inability to touch the door, to twist the knob.
The author’s writing is smooth and descriptive without being
intrusive, painting the background and setting with a masterful touch. She
stays true to the regency period and uses no modern terminology, which will
pull me out of a story quickly. Her writing is so vivid that I was able to live
vicariously through the characters, experience what they felt and what they
were seeing.
Talk about building sexual tension, Ms. Willingham is superb
at this, letting me to experience it as it finally reaches a crescendo,
culminating in an emotionally charged love scene, without becoming overly
graphic. She shows the passion through the emotions the characters are
experiencing, instead of the mechanics of the sexual act. The love scenes are truly
beautiful, and engaging.
Now, for what didn’t work for me. I felt that she did not resolve
the issue with the villain of the story to my satisfaction. It left me
frustrated and disappointed, even though I did sense that she plans to further develop
this story line in the other books in this series. I do plan to read the rest
of the novels in this series. In fact, I’ve already downloaded the other two
that are out.
If you’re looking for a story with beauty, that engages the heart, then this is a book you will want to read. I know I’m certainly glad
I did. Happy reading!
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