When he pays the family a visit, Viola impulsively decides she’s in love with him. Marlowe is handsome, quiet, and has no interest in polite society. Viola is resigned to her terrifying fate… until she’s introduced to the new vicar and his fiancée. But shortly after the death of the elderly vicar Viola regularly helped, her mother decides it’s time for Viola and her beloved sister Joan to make their come-outs. Content and happy to spend time with her family, close friends, and menagerie of pets at Lindow Castle in Cheshire, Viola hopes to avoid ever making her début. A disastrous experience at her first ball as a fifteen-year-old – which ended with one guest accusing her of attempting to entrap him and Viola vomiting all over another – stole whatever courage she once had. Quiet and timid, Viola has always felt as if she was the exact opposite of what a Wilde should be. SYttD is the fifth book in the Wildes series, and although I was unfamiliar with the Wilde family (they play big and small secondary roles in this story), it works as a standalone.Īlthough Viola Astley, stepdaughter of Hugo Wilde, Duke of Lindow, has lived with the Wildes since her mother married the duke when Viola was two years old, her earliest memories were defined by feeling not Wilde. My romance reader friends are evenly split between those who read her and those who skip her newest releases, and I thought it was time I formed my own opinion. I’ve read most of the ‘big’ names in historical romance, but somehow I hadn’t read an Eloisa James novel before Say Yes to the Duke.
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