Up All Night with a Good Duke by Amy Rose Bennett

Therefore, he is shunned by most of his peers. Unfortunately, rumors abound that he killed his first wife. The widowed Duke of Dartmoor, Dominic Winters, needs a wife to help him with his daughter and to provide him with a son. When her good friend asks her to help her through her first London Season, Artemis quits her job and comes at once. Her dream is to open her own academic college for women. Artemis Jones is a finishing school teacher for young women who is also secretly penning Gothic romances. Up All Night with a Good Duke by Amy Rose Bennett is a historical romance set largely in London in 1858. But then, he meets the ravishing and passionate Artemis Jones, who might just be everything he needs. The problem is, Society has dubbed him 'The Dastardly Duke.' Rumors are rife that he murdered his mad wife, so his choices for a suitable bride are limited. As long as she can avoid her high-handed aunt's schemes to marry her off.ĭominic Winters, the widowed Duke of Dartmoor, needs a wife―someone who will provide him with an heir and help him to manage his spitfire adolescent daughter. Who knows, perhaps she can court the interest of a wealthy patron for her school. When Artemis is unexpectedly called upon by a dear friend, a fellow Byronic Book Club member, to navigate her first London Season, she comes at once. 'For you, my beautiful Artemis, I'd stay up all night.'Īrtemis Jones―'respectable' finishing-school teacher by day and Gothic romance writer by night―has never lost sight of her real dream: to open her own academic ladies' college. Lust flashed in his gaze, and then, he caught her face between his hands and kissed her.

'I can think of the perfect way to keep you occupied and your mind diverted,' she murmured.