The one where characters come alive and leap off the page at you, even just typing this and looking at my notes that I made while reading I am smiling to myself. Honestly, I am just smiling to myself this is that kind of book. Obviously, they are going to repel each other like oil and water…. She is the liberal hardworking blue stocking he is the haughty hereditary Tory Peer. Okays, so we have Annabelle, we have Montgomery. Our Duke is the opposite of everything his Farther was, he’s restoring the family honour and fortunes, you could argue that being an influential Duke with what seems like half a dozen properties and who has just been asked by Queen Vic herself to be the Chief Strategic Adviser for the Tory re-election party, he would have restored the family honour, but nope he’s obsessed with getting the castle back. The Castle was lost by his Father years before in a card game.

Of course, one of these men of influence is the Duke of Montgomery, Sebastian Devereux, the 19th Duke of Montgomery, is a man on a mission to reinstate his families lost ancestral home of Montgomery Castle. To fund her studies she has a scholarship from the National Society for Women’s Suffrage, in return for her scholarship, Annabelle needs to work with her new friends, Lady Lucie, Harriet and Catriona, to convince men of influence to back their cause for women’s suffrage and amend the Property Act. Instead we have Annabelle Archer, one of the first female students to be admitted to the illustrious Oxford University. This is historical romance fiction, but not as you know it, there are no ‘heaving bosoms’, nor do I think there are any references to tight britches. I was sending a friend of mine gushing texts about this book and telling her that she NEEDs to read it, oh and I also stayed up till 2am reading this book! I couldn’t put it down I finished it less than 48 hours after getting it. Ok, how to convey that I loved this book! Like proper loved this book I reckon I could write a dissertation on this book pulling out all the different bits that I spotted and loved about this book!

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