![]() ![]() ![]() Initially, there was something thrilling about Hugh and Alf’s encounters. At 21, Alf herself feels a certain restlessness with her life, wondering what it would be like to live as a woman, have children, and how to react to the strange heart-and-body-stirrings Hugh elicits in her. What Alf finds in Hugh is an emotionally closed off widower with two troubled young sons, still mourning the mere months-old loss of their mother and Hugh’s estranged wife, Katherine. ![]() Giles” is a guttersnipette! Hugh brings Alf to his ducal abode to help him pursue the Lords. ![]() When Alf, at the end of their encounter, boldly kisses Hugh, he realizes that the guttersnipe “from the dung head that was St. Giles rescues him, the boy who doubles as the information-gathering daylight guttersnipe, Alf. Late one night, he is beset and hurt by a hired group of thugs near the notorious St. With Valentine’s semi-taming by his house-keeper-heroine, Bridget Crumb, Hugh finds himself relying on Valentine’s Constaninopolean correspondence to help him identify and eventually destroy the Lords. Therein and as Duke Of Pleasure opens, Hugh Fitzroy has been pursuing the Lords of Chaos, a group of immoral, aristocratics who use and abuse children and women. She had a glimpse of its hero, Hugh Fitzroy, Duke of Kyle, as probity to Valentine Napier’s debauchery in Duke Of Sin. It was natural, therefore, that she greatly look forward to Duke Of Pleasure, Hoyt’s 11th Maiden Lane novel. Without a doubt, Elizabeth Hoyt’s Duke Of Sin was one of the best romances Miss Bates ever read. ![]()
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