Duke the Halls

<h2><strong>A ray of sunshine gives the perfect Christmas present to a disagreeable duke.</strong></h2><p></p><p><strong>The Duke of Kitt­redge</strong> is that rarest of men-a wealthy tall and still-unmarried duke. As such he's perennially at the top of the Most Eligible Bachelor list of the <em>ton</em>. Yet he's never gotten close to landing a wife. Young ladies don't seem to like him. Scratch that. They <em>revile</em> him. And he's in complete sympathy with their opinion of him.</p><p>Because he is without question an insufferable clod­pole.</p><p>But to please his mother he's promised to attend a Christmas house party where he will meet a dozen possible future duchesses. He will waltz and carol and stand under mistletoe even as he yearns to cloister himself in his library with a blazing fire a stack of books and his dog.</p><p>So he does what any rational right-thinking duke would do.</p><p>He runs away.</p><p></p><p>Enter the down-but-never-out <strong>Fran­ny Cran­well</strong>. After what they've both been through Fran­ny just wants her little brother to have the most glorious Christmas ever. And he will. She'll make sure of it. Even if it means she has to give an adorably grumpy duke lessons in how to woo a wife.</p><p>If only the darling duke weren't so handsome and so brooding and so unintentionally funny.</p><p>And such a good kisser.</p><p></p><p><strong><em>Duke the Halls</em></strong> is a steamy Regency romance Christmas novella and a prequel to <strong><em>The Bed Me Books</em></strong> series.</p><p></p><p>Content warnings available on the author's website.</p>