With danger closing in, Gwyn must decide which is the greater risk: deflecting a scoundrel's attempts to sabotage her-or revealing her whole heart to the rugged bodyguard she can't resist. But Joshua is unmoved by her attempts at flirtation, and the threat of blackmail still hangs over her.
With handsome Joshua monitoring her every move, Gwyn would prefer to forget both the past and the parade of money-seeking bachelors at her coming out. Praise for The Bachelor ' The Bachelor, the second entrancing book in Jeffries' Duke Dynasty series (Project Duchess, 2019), beautifully showcases the author's gift for creating vividly etched characters (including a well-matched pair of protagonists) and then expertly placing them within a tautly constructed plot spiced with danger and plenty of red-hot sensuality. But as a man, it's torment to be so very close to the beauty he's fought to ignore. As a war hero, Joshua feels obligated to fulfill the assignment he has accepted. Her twin brother, Thorn, hires Joshua Wolfe, the estate's gamekeeper, to keep her safe in London during her debut. But when her former suitor appears at Armitage Hall, manhandling the heiress and threatening to go public with her secrets, it's Gwyn who needs protecting.
Lady Gwyn Drake has long protected her family's reputation by hiding an imprudent affair from her youth.
New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries features an irresistible family in a series to savor, as the grown children of a thrice-married dowager duchess piece together the stories of their fathers-while pursuing passions of their own. PRAISE FOR SABRINA JEFFRIES'S DUKE DYNASTY SERIES : ' The chemistry is as intense in the bedroom as it is in the science lab in Jeffries's intoxicating.
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