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For a dashing duke and the proprietress of a secret, sensual club in the London Underground, passion could lead to love… if they dare
Thomas Powell, the new Duke of Northfield, knows he should be proper and principled, like his father. No more dueling, or carousing, or frequenting masked parties where Londoners indulge their wildest desires. But he’s not ready to give up his freedom just yet. The club is an escape, a place where he can forget about society and the weight of his title… and see her, the woman he’s wanted forever.
Lucia—known as Amina—manages the Orchid Club, a secret society where fantasies become reality. But for Lucia, it’s strictly business, profitable enough to finance her dream a home for the lost girls of the streets. Surrounded by lovers, she only observes, unwilling risk her future for any man. No member has ever intrigued her...until him, the masked stranger whose heated looks sear her skin. After months of suppressed longing, they dare to give in to temptation…
But the late duke’s legacy comes with a shocking secret, and the scandal threatens to destroy everything Tom loves… his family, the Orchid Club, and even Lucia.
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Dare to Love a Duke The London Underground edition by Eva Leigh Romance eBooks Reviews
- There are books that you like, those that you love, and those you would be trapped on a desert island with. This, dear potential reader, is a desert island book.
The heir to a dukedom has been playing the field and is looking for a challenge when he is drawn to the manager of the Orchid Club, a sex club where anything goes as long as it's consensual. However, when his father dies, Tom realizes he needs to grow up for the sake of the people he is now in charge of and for his sister, Maeve. Putting the pressure further on him is the father of Maeve's beau, who is basically forbidding any union between Maeve and his son unless Tom toes the conservative line that his father walked. So Tom engages in one very hot night with the Orchid Club's manager, Lucia, then goes off to start adulting. Then everything promptly goes to hell.
There is a lot of amazing catnip for me in this book. At the tip top are the family units established in the series. Tom's father was strict but clearly loved his son. Tom's relationship with Maeve is amazing, and it reminds me a lot of my own relationship with my oldest brother. Tom and Lucia both have non-English parents (he is part-Irish and she is part-Napoli), and their respective heritages are lovingly woven throughout the story. I especially love how Lucia explains the role of religion in her life without any of it turning preachy or it being shoved down anyone's throat. Lucia's found family with Kitty and Elspeth is even more adorable. There is also a same sex relationship that is beautifully written. It is completely organic and natural, just the way it should be in real life.
I love Tom's struggle between toeing the line in the House of Lords and standing by his own progressive needs. He is aware that his actions are going to wind up hurting someone, be it Maeve, Lucia, or innocent people. In one very beautiful scene where he is wrestling with this, he tells Lucia that he just wants to be a good man. The book illustrates very well that no matter what the steps you take to be a good person, you're going to fail somewhere. But as long as you can overall make a net positive in the world, then you are doing OK. Lucia's journey throughout the story to avoid her mother's pitfalls while holding her memory close is just amazing, and I love in the beginning the prayer she sends to her mother in the afterlife. These are both extremely good people, and Tom doesn't hold Lucia's past over her head, which is refreshingly adult.
I also loved the easter eggs to previous books that Leigh has written, and the sex is very, VERY hot and amazingly written. If you don't care for explicit intimate scenes, this story is not for you. I also loved the ending immensely.
This was my favorite book in the "London Underground" series, and it makes me want to revisit the entire series to slot missing pieces into place. - This is another terrific offering of fun and sexy Regency romance by Eva Leigh. I am glad to have discovered her as an author.
What is good about this book the writing, the characters (both the main characters and the secondary characters). The main characters are Thomas Powell, who is the Earl of Langdon at the story's beginning, and becomes the Duke of Northfield soon in the unfolding of the novel; and Lucia Marini (aka Amina) who runs one of London's Clubs - known as The Orchid Club. The Orchid Club is a sex club. If this fact bothers you as a reader this would not be a book for you. If this fact doesn't bother you as a reader the setting gives one a lot to ponder as to the sexual needs of human beings.
I liked the character of Thomas, because he was a person who was desirous of taking his responsibilities seriously. He loved his family and friends. He was particularly fond of his sister and wanted her life to be wonderful in both love and all good things. The issue he has is that he is in danger of taking himself so seriously that he will neglect his own needs. Not only that, but he is in danger of giving up his moral compass as it relates to the the societal needs he recognizes in his country.
Lucia works in the sex business, and has done so to survive. She has also created a family for herself with those who help her run the club, and who have become dear to her heart.
The question is can two such people find a way to overcome the differences in the way society understands their differences. That is the conflict of the story. I will leave the reading for you to discover if this problem can be overcome. Don't miss Ms. Leigh's creative offering to the Regency library of good reads. - Eva Leigh writes romance with the very best of them, love and lust you believe, characters you care about, plots that surprise you, and an extra bounty of sparkling language and WIT. Her pen is sharp, and you gather in the these treasures page by page "The flavors of long simmered meat combined with herbs and wine sang like a chorus." And yet another gem about food - as said to our heroine, Lucia, by her girlfriend "I keep turning around andfinding you beaming at him like he personally invented cake." Another exchange with her girlfriend while Luchia heart is hurting. Luchia "dreadfully inconvient things, emotions." Kitty "They are...but without them, we'd be men, and who wants that?" Here is a writer truly bearing gifts.
- This is a delightfully romantic book with an original setting, true chemistry between Tom and Lucia, and absolutely charming side characters. I love books where I'm absolutely rooting for love to win out and this falls solidly into that category.
This is the first book by Eva Leigh I've ever read. I picked it up after reading some of the conversation online from readers who felt that Lucia's career makes a HEA "unrealistic." I mean, if you can buy a orphan or a governness marrying a duke, why not the philanthropic manager of a sex club? A romance reader that is fine with *members* of sex clubs getting HEAs (as we see with duke after duke after duke) but draws the realism line at an employee getting a chance at one probably needs to stop and unpack what is going on there. /rant - Buy this novel. Do not punish yourself by not reading this novel. It’s so nice to have a regency romance that’s not about a wallflower, but more than that, to have a heroine who’s unapologetically experienced and a hero who digs that about her is refreshing and wonderful. Plus, a regency London sex club as the backdrop? An upper-class villain? So much sexy consent and emotional backgrounds which create the perfect delicious tension? Fabulous banter? This was perfect from start to finish.
- Different and unique. I absolutely loved this book, one of my favorite couples. â¤ï¸
- I found this book very refreshing. I loved the hero and heroine, the plot. Fun, fun, fun.
- story with a different twist. loved it.
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