She conveys feelings without florid language and excess drama she gives a sense of time and place without overly lavish description. Her prose flows smoothly and naturally with eddies rippling around the occasional almost poetic passage. Her work just soars above the mere grammar and mechanics of decent writing. It almost seems that the individual elements that make this book work just fit together so beautifully and match my particular tastes as well.įirst of all, Duran is a wonderful writer. Duran doesn’t seem to cover any startling new ground in this historical, yet the overall quality is exceptional.
I expect that I’ll read it again someday, and that is definitely a factor in my A grade. I read it for the second time for this review, remembering that I’d enjoyed it the first time, but not recalling a whole lot of detail. I know that Fool Me Twice is an A read for me, but there isn’t any one overwhelming reason. For the one contingency he forgot to plan for was falling in love…and he cannot survive being fooled again. But the more fascinated he becomes with the uppity redhead, the more dangerous his carefully designed plot becomes. More beautiful than Lucifer, twice as feared, and thrice as cunning, he’ll use any weapon to punish those who fooled and betrayed him-even an impertinent maid who doesn’t know her place. She’ll clean his study and rifle through his papers looking for information.Īlastair de Grey has a single reason to live: vengeance. But when she realizes that the Duke of Marwick might hold the secrets of her family’s past, she does the unthinkable, infiltrating his household as a maid. But his vengeful plan fails to account for his single weakness: an irresistible and growing passion for the enigmatic Olivia.Sensible and lonely, Olivia Mather survives by her wits-and her strict policy of avoiding trouble.
He has suffered a betrayal so deep that he will use whatever means necessary to destroy his enemies-even his brazen and beautiful domestic. As a woman, the daring redhead is just what Alastair needs to rouse him from darkness to the siren call of revenge. Little does she know that the wickedly handsome Alastair de Grey has very different plans for her.Īs his new employee, Olivia is a fearless upstart. So when she realizes that the infamous Duke of Marwick might hold the key to her freedom, she boldly disguises herself as the newest and bravest in a long line of the duke’s notoriously temperamental housekeepers. Running for her life, exhausted and out of options, Olivia Holladay wants nothing more than the chance to make a home for herself. “Readers need to make room on their keeper shelf for Meredith Duran” ( Fresh Fiction).
In the vein of Sarah MacLean, a sexy and evocative Regency romance between a vengeful duke and a fiery redhead from an author who is a veritable tour de force in the genre.
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