Duke du Jour by Petie McCarty

Duke du Jour by Petie McCarty

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GENRE:   Regency Time-Travel Romance
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BLURB: ..a reverse Kate and Leopold...a light-hearted time travel romance where a bewildered modern-day duke ends up in Regency England and meets the girl of his dreams...

Jared Langley, present-day Duke of Reston, tumbles into an abandoned fountain on his ducal estate and travels back in time to the year 1816. There, Reston servants and local villagers think him a dead ringer for his namesake and rakehell ancestor--the seventh Duke of Reston, gone missing at the Battle of Waterloo. Unfortunately, Seven got mixed up with French spies out to assassinate the Duke of Wellington, and an unwary Jared ends up in their crosshairs.

Lady Ariana Hart has loved Jared Langley, the seventh Duke of Reston, since she was twelve years old, until the night the rogue broke her heart. Given up for dead, her rakish neighbor makes a miraculous return from Waterloo--only Jared shows up a changed man and reignites all the feelings Ariana had long ago buried.

Jared is in a race against time. He must waylay the suspicions of his quirky servants and neighbors, get to Wellington before the French spies do, fix his fountain--before Seven shows up--so Jared has a way home, and definitely not fall in love with the irresistible Lady Ariana.

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EXCERPT:  “Do you remember me?” Ariana asked quickly before she lost her nerve.

Jared's expression grew chagrined, and her stomach plummeted. She had hoped, for but a moment. In the next instant, she received the greatest shock of all.

He stepped so close only inches separated them. “But I wanted to remember you,” he said softly. “I wanted to know you right away—the moment I laid eyes on you.”

Her lips parted in surprise. With no prior memory, he had finally noticed her as a woman?

He stared into her eyes. “I feel drawn to you…Ari.”

His voice turned low and husky when he breathed her name, and the sound drifted over her like a lover’s caress. His pupils dark as night, he slowly leaned in. His lips nuzzled hers, softly at first and then with more pressure. His hand cradled her cheek, and her skin tingled with the heat of his touch.

Ari fought the initial urge to flinch at the touch of his lips, so startled was she, and he swept a muscular arm around her back to hold her steady—or bind her in place. She was not sure which, and she didn’t really care. And if she was completely truthful with herself, she had wanted this for a very long time.

Having had but one prior kiss in her life—and that a quick peck on the lips stolen by Baron Dalton, and only a peck, because she had jerked back in shock—Ari was unprepared for the riot of emotions flooding through her. Joy, anticipation, shock, and yes, hunger for something instinctive and quite beyond her reach.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Petie spent a large part of her career working at Walt Disney World -- "The Most Magical Place on Earth" -- where she enjoyed working in the land of fairy tales by day and creating her own romantic fairy tales by night, including her new series, The Cinderella Romances. She eventually said good-bye to her "day" job to write her stories full-time. These days Petie spends her time writing sequels to her regency time-travel series, Lords in Time, and her cozy-mystery-with-elements-of-romantic-suspense series, the Mystery Angel Romances.

Petie shares her home on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee with her horticulturist husband, a spoiled-rotten English Springer spaniel addicted to pimento-stuffed green olives, and a noisy Nanday conure named Sassy who made a cameo appearance in Angel to the Rescue. 

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REVIEW:

A young, handsome, wealthy bachelor tumbles into an old fountain - and finds himself in his own family's past! Jarod Langley  is a hard-working, decent man. He's also interested in geneology, since his family - old and titled - has lived in the same manor for generations. And generations of Langley's have left portraites, letters, and documents reflecting their lives. All the Langleys? Not quite - one, the seventh Duke of Reston, also named Jarod, had gone missing at the Battle of Waterloo, and left nothing behind but a portrait that looks spookily just like modern-day Jarod. After falling into the fountain, Jarod wakes up in 1816, and is mistaken for the missing duke. And, to top things off, the missing duke seems to be a scoundrel and a rake - and mixed up in some sort of treason!
Toss into the mix two very lovely but very different women, a couple of unsavory murderers, a suspicious neighbor, and you get a very fun romp through the past! Jarod has to clear his ancestor's name (now him!), woo the woman of his dreams while keeping the other woman from wrecking his budding romance, and find out who is trying to kill him, and somehow get back to the future while keeping his past intact. I had a great time reading this book - it's funny, touching, and full of action and romance. If you like time travel and historical romances, don't hesitate, you'll love this!