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My Dear Miss Dupré (American Royalty Book #1)
My Dear Miss Dupré (American Royalty Book #1)
My Dear Miss Dupré (American Royalty Book #1)
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My Dear Miss Dupré (American Royalty Book #1)

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Willow Dupré never thought she would have to marry, but with her father's unexpected retirement from running the prosperous Dupré sugar refinery, she is forced into a different future. The shareholders are unwilling to allow a female to take over the company without a man at her side, so her parents devise a plan--find Willow a spokesman king in order for her to become queen of the business empire.

Willow is presented with thirty potential suitors from the families of New York society's elite group called the Four Hundred. She has six months to court the group and is told to to eliminate men each month to narrow her beaus until she chooses one to marry, ending the competition with a wedding. Willow reluctantly agrees, knowing she must do what is best for the business. She doesn't expect to find anything other than a proxy . . . until she meets a gentleman who captures her attention, and she must discover for herself if his motives are pure.
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Release dateMar 2, 2021
ISBN9781493430000
My Dear Miss Dupré (American Royalty Book #1)

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    This book was so much fun. Imagine a bachelorette in the 1880s with 30 society guys on this line. The business involved was very interesting and I loved the swoony ending. Kudos to Grace Hitchcock and I'm eager for more.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
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    I wonder why on the cover Jen Turano says “ an original idea”. Seems to me the author has taken the show “Bachelor “ and wrote it as a novel. For a supposed love story it has lot of heartache, specially for Theodore. It’s not fair!!!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    "The Bachelorette" set in the late 19th Century.Willow Dupre is a young woman who has a company to run with her father. She loves it, but the board doesn't love that she is a single woman. To appease the board, her parents come up with a plan to have a house party/competition with 30 of the most eligible wealthy bachelors in attendance. Willow must choose one of them to marry or else losing her family business to a ruthless competitor.There were some fun elements to the story. Willow has to decide who is trying to undermine her business, selling information to the papers, and who actually appreciates her and not her fortune. It is a daunting task, and the gentlemen do not get along.There were only a few of the gentlemen who play a significant role in the story. It is easy to tell from the beginning who the true competitors were. As a reader, you know that there is an investigation going on that Willow is unaware of. It's hard to cheer on the competitors when you are unsure if the person you are rooting for is worthy of her hand.Overall this was a fun book to read. I felt that it lagged a bit in the middle, but the pacing picked up and kept me turning the pages.Source: I received a complimentary copy. All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    My Dear Miss Dupre by Grace Hitchcock is the first book in her American Royalty series. Willow Dupre has six months to choose a husband from the thirty suitors competing for her hand. Can she find true love and someone to help run her father’s sugar refinery within that time frame? If not, her cousin will sell his shares to the competition. This story started out with so much potential. Willow wanted what was best for the family business and was willing to go along with her parents’ wishes even though she wasn’t comfortable with the competition. There were things that the author put in the story that you know would have never happened in that time period; which kind of ruined the book for me. The story ended too fast and we were not part of the wrapping up of all the loose ends. They were just finished. We were told about them in a couple of sentences. All in all I don’t think the story lived up to the hype.I received this book from the publisher for my honest review.

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