From the back of the book:
When an ancient tax law is invoked requiring all unmarried ladies to either wed or surrender half their wealth, the quiet village of Fortune’s Folly is overrun by a swarm of fortune-hunting bachelors.
Marry again? Never! Not afterwhat Laura, the dowager duchess, was forced to endure the first time. Even if her onetime paramour, Dexter Anstruther, is oh-so-tempting, she knows her secrets would destroy any chance at a future together. Young, handsome and scandalously tempting, Dexter suspects Laura has a hidden motive for resisting his charms…and he intends to discover it, by any means necessary.
The Confessions of a Duchess is the first book in a trilogy set in the same town of Fortune’s Folly. I had high hopes for this book, but it didn’t live up to them. From the premise - a tax on unmarried women - to the secret that the Laura is keeping from Dexter, there was one unbelievable happening after another. Dexter is a man in need of a fortune to take care of his six brothers and sisters and he doesn’t expect anyone to help him. Laura is a dowager duchess who has a small daughter to take care off and little money. She once spent a wild night with Dexter and then coldly tossed him out of her bed. The set up for the romance worked for me and would have made a great story if Laura had been honest with Dexter and there wasn’t the stupid dame’s tax thing. I have the other two books in the series, but probably won’t be reading them.
the book girl gives THE CONFESSIONS OF A DUCHESS a 2/5
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