New Historical Romance Series

 The Heiress Gets a Duke by Harper St. George 

The only reason this book is not 5 stars is because of how it started. Otherwise, I ate this up. Giggling. Kicking my feet. Jaw hanging open looking a fool. Grinning so hard my face hurt. I loved this book. It starts with Camille, a New York heiress, being married off to an older Duke so her new money family can get some "respectability" from the old money families. Enter August and her younger sister Violet. They are convinced that their parents would never do something like that; August works for her family business and is valued for her insights! They go to London to visit Camille and she convinces August to go with her to see a bare knuckle boxing match. Enter The Hellion. Nobody knows who he is, but he is hot. He's doing well and August gets pushed into the ring and the Hellion saves her. He asks her for a kiss for luck, and she gives it to him. Then the fight continues and the other guy has a knife in his boot and stabs him in the leg. Enter Evan, the Duke. He is in dire straights and has a meeting with his solicitor and his mother and they both agree that he has to marry. His mother proposes Violet Crenshaw and agrees, thinking that it's the woman from the fight. They go to a dinner and when he meets the family, turns out his "intended" isn't who he thought it was. Afterwards, his mother asks him what the thought of Violet and he flat out tells her he wants August instead and she's just like okey dokey. Mommy dearest doesn't care who he marries as long as she is rich! A few days later there is a ball. Evan never goes to balls, but he goes to this one and seeks out August. August knows that if he dances with Violet that will mean him declaring his intentions for her so she asks him not to dance with her. He doesn't. He waltz's with August then leaves. This sends everyone into a tizzy. August is confused as to why everyone is looking at her and one of her friends has to spell it out for her. Then, he convinces her to bring her family to one of his estates for a week so she can see what their marriage would really mean. And they start to fall for each other. Then, he finds out that he doesn't actually have to get married, that his father bought a mine in Montana and his old solicitor was pretending to be working for him and was stealing from him, but he has millions. So, he calls off the wedding because he thinks that's what she wants. But, they are both miserable and they get talk it out and get back together. This book had everything and frankly I'm a little afraid to read book two because I enjoyed this one so much, that I don't know if the second can live up to this!