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  • The Duke's Perfect Wife

  • Highland Pleasures, Book 4
  • By: Jennifer Ashley
  • Narrated by: Angela Dawe
  • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (15 ratings)

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The Duke's Perfect Wife

By: Jennifer Ashley
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Summary

Lady Eleanor Ramsay is the only one who knows the truth about Hart Mackenzie. Once his fiancée, she is the sole woman to whom he could ever pour out his heart. Hart has it all - a dukedom, wealth, power, influence, whatever he desires. Every woman wants him - his seductive skills are legendary. But Hart has sacrificed much to keep his brothers safe, first from their brutal father, and then from the world. He's also suffered loss: his wife, his infant son, and the woman he loved with all his heart, though he realized it too late.

Now Eleanor has reappeared on Hart's doorstep, with scandalous nude photographs of Hart taken long ago. Intrigued by the challenge in her blue eyes - and aroused by her charming, no-nonsense determination - Hart wonders if his young love has come to ruin him ... or save him.

©2012 Jennifer Ashley (P)2012 Tantor
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"Ashley demonstrates her gift for combining complex characters; emotionally compelling, danger-tinged plotting; and a delectably sensual romance into one unforgettable love story." ( Booklist)

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Disappointed

I was really looking forward to hearing Hart's back story and was disappointed.

OK, so you hear how the romance blossomed and faded for him and Eleanor, but not what has been written about in the precious books, e.g. the activities that went on in his mistress's house or what his sexual darker acts were, although these are slightly touched on. I just felt that it was a cop out.

The relationship with Eleanor was OK but I found her quite tedious at times. She is not one of my favourite heroines.

I also don't get that a control freak like Hart can suddenly see the light and give this up for love. I just don't buy it!

I did, however, like hearing about the family, the political intrigue and how Ian comes to the rescue.

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There is a story somewhere.

I was looking forward to see how this story would pan-out. However, I didn't expect chapters of "Erotic sex", I have never understood "bondage"; but each to their own. I just don't like pages and pages of someone else approach to a type of sex I find marginal. Hart comes across as a manipulative bully, you see him as a "controlling husband", even though Eleanor is a "stong woman". She rejected him when she was young, yet couldn't move on with her life and becomes a stalker; where is the "strong woman"? She is happy to be back in his life, if she wants him, she must conform to his sexual proclivity. I wonder if pushed she would have taken him back with mistresses, it is Hart who has changed to suit his career. She is typically of women, who make excuse for the partner, and he is rich.
A pity that "bondage" is the main theme.

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