Laura Lee Guhrke is the writer of powerful historical romances with amazing attention to details of the period. True to Guhrke style How To Lose A Duke In Ten Days draws you in immediately capturing your attention and interest. In short you are hooked.

Edie and Stuart need and deserve a new beginning but each faces challenges. Stuart's are physical and Edie's are emotional but with perseverance, patience and love their futures could be brighter.

Stuart felt this attraction to Edie from the first time he saw her. Here was a man who basically lived life as it suited him. Stuart definitely had no issues with his self- confidence and ego, had never met a woman who didn't fall over herself to catch his eye. He sensed something different about this tall woman who was staring at him across the dance floor. It wasn't a brazen flirty type of stare but she had definitely made Stuart take a second look.

How was Stuart to ever know that in that moment his life was to be forever changed?

For Edie meeting Stuart could give her the safety net that had so far alluded her. So she entered into an agreement with this man she knew really nothing about with the exception that she had the one thing he needed the most -- money. And with money she would be able to negotiate the perfect arrangement for her future.

Well of course nothing is perfect but perhaps this arrangement could somehow provide both Edie and Stuart a way to wipe their individual slates clean and start a new one together. Stuart and Edie each had very different expectations of the outcome of their arrangement and here's where the fun begins. Edie fighting very hard to prevent Stuart from becoming important to her. Stuart working just as diligently to win at this game that had become crucial to his life.

Laura Lee Guhrke provides an intriguing look into the social hierarchy of England when combined with the new wealthy class of Americans. Her insight provides a wondrous view of a life we can only speculate about. Romance with just the right amount of history, passion, clever dialog and heart is the trademark of Guhrke.

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