The Duke's Violet

By Roxie Brandon

Violet Baker grew up in a poor family, but she was happy with her life. Robert Montgomery, Duke of Pembroke, known as a rake, contacts Violet’s father expressing his interest in marrying her. A marriage of convenience for the sake of her family.
But the Duke of Pembroke has his own motives for his proposal. Will the emerging feelings the couple have for each other survive the secret he carries?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Roxie Brandon
• Release date: Aug 18, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370704644

Roxie Brandon

Roxie Brandon is an author of historical and contemporary romance, beauty and fashion books.Her romances range in setting from Medieval times to the Twentieth Century.She loves walks in the countryside and having afternoon tea with family and friends.

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THE DUKE’S VIOLET

A REGENCY ROMANCE

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By

Roxie Brandon

Copyright © 2017 Roxie Brandon All Rights Reserved

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Chapter One

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Violet Baker imagined a world where she would marry for love and not for convenience. Just that morning, her father had informed her that she would be married to a Duke. She would become the Duchess.

A husband, Violet said dully. She was an obedient daughter and always had been so, but it seemed as though, if her marriage were being planned, that she should have been, if not consulted, at least informed.

Her family’s smiles proved that they expected her to rejoice at the news. Violet tried to force her lips to curve upward in a semblance of a smile. A Duke she said faintly. How…how very unexpected. Who… who is the duke to whom I am to marry?

"You shall be the future Duchess of Pembroke, her mother said.

Robert Montgomery, the Duke of Pembroke, was the master of Camden Hall and was now visiting his friend, Edmund Wellington, the Duke of Essex. If Violet would marry the Duke of Pembroke, she would go away from her home and she would never see her family again.

Violet attempted to conceal her opinions and join in the family enjoyment. Her face felt stiff as she listened to her family congratulating themselves on the wonderful work they had done in getting her a husband from the aristocracy. It seemed to have happened to no one that a young woman, even one of merely nineteen, might like to have at least a bit amount of understanding of such an important decision.

She had noticed the Duke of Pembroke with his friend on several occasions watching her as she walked through the streets of the small village she had grown up in. He was an attractive man, but Violet heard he was immoral, and even though many women would have loved to be his wife, Violet found him to be distasteful.

She knew of his reputation. He was not the type of man that Violet had grown up dreaming that she would marry. She had spent her life dreaming of a man that worked for a living, one that came from her same social class, one that had morals.

It was this day that Violet would go to meet her betrothed at Mansfield Manor, Edmund Wellington's house, and even though her mother told her that she needed to prepare herself, Violet refused. She had seen the duchesses, the way they dressed and the way they behaved; it was not something that Violet was interested in. She did not believe that she would fit in with the nobles.

Violet was of pale complexion, long wisps of umber streaked with highlights of ginger that always seemed to gleam when they captured the light just right.

Her hair was a lovely whisky, the color of

Reviews for The Duke's Violet

[Michele Jepsson · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

I was disappointed in this book. It has passages that are exactly the same as in her book the Duke's Margaret. She describes a scene where Violet/Margaret walks outside and the Duke is watching. She describes the exact same scenery, the women are wearing the same clothes and the Duke's have the exact same thoughts. Then in both books they go to a ball and once again she uses verbatim the same words for the 2 books. I couldn't manage to finish the book as it felt like I was just reading the Duke's Margaret again, so I can't say if she did it through the rest of the short book.