Dukes and Dekes

<p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Can a professional hockey player reform his rakish ways for a winning shot at his best friend's guarded heart?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Nestled between rocks and mountains the slumbering town of Chawton Falls NH blinks alive every autumn when the Wentworth Estate hosts the Jane Austen Regency Fair.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>For event coordinator Aulie Desfleurs fall is a dizzying season full of bonnets muslin bicorn hats-and unfortunately this year playing the role of the foolish Lydia Bennet. A sensible woman to her core she has no time to worry about her mysterious chronic illness or love life.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>So what if a spicy photo of her best friend Jack Parker in a penalty box threatens to reignite a spark from years ago? If she maintains her distance-an easy feat during hockey season-she'll be fine.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Jack Parker the bad boy of the American professional hockey league is suspended...again. Forced to flee to Chawton Falls Jack comes face to face with a swell of repressed emotions...and a goat. Seeking a distraction he soon finds himself in the fair cast as the infamous rake George Wickham.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Wearing breeches isn't exactly on brand but after five years of harboring unrequited feelings for Aulie Jack's willing to sport the high-waisted pants if it means convincing her he can be the dashing hero she deserves.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>With a less than stellar dating history and a suspension deadline looming Aulie knows falling for Jack would be foolish.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>But when he kisses her like a man possessed one day and takes care of her like a saint the next Aulie's forced to choose: either embrace Jane Austen's signature truth we are all fools in love or risk living like the author without a happily ever after of her own.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Dukes and Dekes is a friends-to-lovers brother's best friend romance that deals with grief and chronic illness. It contains adult language and open-door intimate scenes that realistically depict endometriosis (i.e. no penetration).</span></p>