Title: Love, the Duke
(Say I Do #3)
Author: Amelia Grey
Published: April 2025
Genre: Historical Romance, Love at First Sight, Best Friend's Sibling

 

Blurb:

When the Duke of Hurstbourne receives a letter from his childhood friend asking him to marry his sister Ophelia, Hurst declines. He’s not adverse to taking a bride, but he believes in love at first sight that stirs his desires – not marriage sight – unseen.

Adhering to society’s strict propriety for ladies, Ophelia Stowe has no choice but to present herself as a man to seek the Duke of Hurstbourne’s favour. If not for the dire situation she finds herself in, she wouldn’t have asked for help from the handsome man who had rebuffed her. When the alluring duke’s response is a plan of his own, Ophelia never dreams it would be a proposal of a marriage of convenience.

But the stakes are high, and the good name of the Stowe family will be damaged if a missing antiquity isn’t found. When she accepts his offer, she quickly finds she isn’t immune to the passion building between her and her new husband – or how real the marriage begins to feel.

My Review:

I loved a romance story when the hero falls hard for the heroine, and Hurst, despite his initial rejection, keeps on pursuing and protecting stubborn Ophelia. To clear her brother’s name, Ophelia is determined to find a stolen artefact when his brother was still alive. She asks Hurst for help while disguising herself as a man but he firmly refuses on the first day he meets Ophelia. Yet, Hurst has no idea that the woman who happens to have stirred his heart the moment his laid eye on her is Ophelia.

Despite the prolonged of search for the stolen artefact, I thoroughly enjoyed Ophelia and Hurst’s disagreements and banter. Their chemistry is undeniable, and they are a perfect match. This is massively entertaining love-at-first-sight historical romance.

About the Author

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Amelia Grey read her first romance book when she was thirteen. She’s been a devoted reader of love stories ever since.

Amelia has been happily married to her high school sweetheart for over thirty-five years and she lives on the beautiful gulf coast of Northwest Florida.

With more than twenty-five books published, she is a two-time winner of the prestigious Booksellers Best Award. She’s also won then Aspen Gold, and the Golden Quill Awards. Writing as Gloria Dale Skinnier, she won the coveted Romantic Times Award for Love and Laughter and the Maggie Award. Amelia’s books have been published in Europe, Indonesia, Turkey, Russia, and Japan.

Several of her books have been featured in Doubleday and Rhapsody Book Clubs.

You can follow Amelia on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AmeliaGreyBooks

Picture and blurb source: goodreads.com