The Temptation of Reverend Francis Brody: Scandalous Daughters of Duke Street
by Isabella Hargreaves
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Publication date
- September 24, 2024
Actress Clarissa Bartlett craves fame and fortune on the stage. After years of struggle since she left the Duke Street Orphanage, she’s achieved theatre acclaim at Covent Garden. When her aunt takes a wealthy lover and decides it’s time for Clarissa to take one too, Clarissa turns to the only man she trusts, the earnest Reverend Francis Brody, her total opposite.
Francis ministers to the Covent Garden parish while he awaits a promised living in Hampshire, and avoids Miss Fanny Hodges, the woman everyone thinks he will marry. When the beautiful Clarissa seeks his help to avoid an unwanted liaison, he can’t refuse her safety in his bachelor rooms. Suddenly, his ordered and respectable life is thrown into chaos.
As their enemies unite to destroy their reputations and their careers, Francis offers Clarissa protection in a marriage of convenience. Soon, they’re finding it hard to resist their attraction to each other and starting to believe they may be a match made in heaven…until their hopes for a future together are shattered.
Will they find a way to be together when so many forces are tearing them apart?
The Temptation of Reverend Francis Brody is a M/F Regency romance featuring: love at first sight, opposites attract, forced proximity, marriage of convenience, and forbidden love tropes.This novella is part of the Scandalous Daughters of Duke Street series. In a time when a family’s reputation and social standing decided one’s fate, starting life as an orphan was a difficult social obstacle to overcome. Never fear, the sons and daughters of the Duke Street Orphanage love a challenge. They won’t let their inauspicious origins hold them back from finding their calling in life and discovering lasting love.
The Scandalous Daughters of Duke Street is an emotionally satisfying series of romance novellas to entertain and delight. Each story can be read as a stand-alone romance in any order.
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