SPORTOCHICK’S MUSINGS: This book was my favorite of the series with both friction and heat throughout the book.
No Ordinary Duchess (Book 3 of 3)
by Elizabeth Hoyt
Pub Date Dec 10 2024
Forever (Grand Central Publishing)
DESCRIPTION
From a New York Times bestselling author, the much-anticipated third novel in the Greycourt series.
Cold and brooding, Julian Greycourt, the heir to the Windemere dukedom, has always known that his uncle the duke was responsible for his mother’s death. Now he’s determined to exact revenge against his uncle—if he can find the proof. But Julian hides a secret so explosive it will destroy him if it’s ever revealed, and the duke is watching. The last thing he needs is a distractingly sensual woman whose very presence threatens to destroy his plans.
Sunny and cheerful, Lady Elspeth de Moray doesn’t know why her brother and Julian fell out all those years ago, but she can’t let the autocratic man get in the way of her mission: to retrieve an ancient family text that she believes is in one of the Windemere libraries. Locating the tome, however, proves trickier than she anticipated, and at each turn, she’s thrown together with the maddingly mysterious Julian. And the temptation to give in to her family’s greatest enemy grows stronger with each intriguing encounter…
REVIEW
Julian Greycourt, the heir to the Windemere dukedom, has a horrible memory of his oldest sister’s death and a secret that destroyed every family involved. That night he lost everything that mattered to him. He is the only one who knows the most truth about the event and even that is suspect.
Lady Elspeth de Moray’s family was shattered that night as well and they were never the same. Shipped off to her aunt with her two older sisters changed her life and introduced her a different type of life that she is trying to save in this book.
Both characters have been in the other two books to this series and honestly, I didn’t anticipate them as a possible couple. In this book the friction between these two is very real and as the secrets begin to unfold about Julian, I am forced to change my opinion of him with great compassion.
Elspeth’s mission forces her to agree to work with Julian to find something hidden in his house or books so he can finally put the death into the past and confront his cruel uncle the current Duke. This is her chance to find what she also needs to complete her mission but what she finds is so much more than she would ever imagine.
I thought the author handled this enemy to friends with finesse. This book was my favorite of the series with both friction and heat throughout the book. All the twists and turns and truths and untruths are uncovered in a heart-stopping way leaving the reader very satisfied at the end.
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