Loving the Duke (Rakes and Rogues Collection Book 1)

By Regina Morgan

Emma Baker grew up in a poor family, but she was happy with her life. Robert Montgomery, Duke of Pembroke, known as a rake, contacts Emma’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: Regina Morgan
• Release date: Jul 27, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463298961

Regina Morgan

Regina Morgan is an author of historical and contemporary romance.Her romances range in setting from Medieval times to the Twentieth Century.When not writing, you can find her trying to keep up with her husband and three kids and exploring the different parts of the world.

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Loving the Duke

(RAKES AND ROGUES COLLECTION BOOK 1)

Copyright © 2019 Regina Morgan 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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Epilogue

CHAPTER ONE

Emma 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, Emma 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. Emma 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 Emma would marry the Duke of Pembroke, she would go away from her home and she would never see her family again.

Emma 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 Emma heard he was immoral, and even though many women would have loved to be his wife, Emma found him to be distasteful.

She knew of his reputation. He was not the type of man that Emma 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 Emma 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, Emma refused. She had seen the duchesses, the way they dressed and the way they behaved; it was not something that Emma was interested in. She did not believe that she would fit in with the nobles.

Emma was of pale complexion, long wisps of umber streaked with highlights of ginger that always