The Duke of Debt

Millcastle, Book 3

By: Kate Pearce

Narrated by: Victoria McGlovin

When Alistair Haralson unexpectedly inherits a dukedom, he is determined to restore it to its former glory. After being deprived of control of his family fortune by his father’s second wife his prospects are bleak until Miss Margaret Blackthorn makes him an intriguing offer—her industrially acquired fortune in return for a marriage of convenience. Can Alistair afford to ignore her invitation? And, will they both get far more than they bargained for as they work together to survive their enemies and find unexpected happiness?

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Liked Heroine and story; but not the Hero.

First, I like "clean" romances, with the bedroom door firmly closed. and since I had to keep skipping past occasional detailed graphic sex, I would never give it 5 stars. That said, the setting and the story was interesting, the book seemed well written. The Heroine is just the kind of lead female that I love to read about, but I felt she deserved a better Hero. I had mixed feelings about him. I worked to keep an open mind but midway through the story when he failed to totally back his wife against the housekeeper he demonstrated serious and unacceptable Fatel Flaws. Here the Heroine compromised with him, and that crisis smoothed out, but then he continued to demonstrate those same flaws again and again throughout the book, especially with regards to the Stepmother. His Flaws,... repeated... made his character unheroic, So, although the book ended with an alleged "happily ever after", I still felt sorry for the Heroine, wishing the lead male had been a better man.