The Infamous Duchess
by Sophie Barnes
Publisher: Avon
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Reviewed by Santa
The Infamous Duchess is a five star
book in Sophie Barnes’ Diamonds in the Rough series. Viola Cartwright is the
Dowager Duchess of Tremaine who upon her husband’s death and generosity is
able to establish St. Agatha’s Hospital. To the ton and his son she is branded
as a golddigger when her only wish was to provide care to the citizens of
London and to be left alone. She is able to ignore the jabs since she never
wanted to be a part of that society. And so, with the help of Dr. Florian
Lowell - late the Duke of Redding - she has been able to do just that until two
events serve to knock into her.
Just as her step-son
Robert,the present Duke of Tremaine, decides to slash his cobra’s tongue from
the West Indies in an effort to kill her dreams and take everything from her,
Florian rushes in with his older brother Harry Lowell who seems to have a
penchant for having violence visited upon him. He has just been shot in a duel.
Viola sets about assisting Florian in performing surgery on Harry to remove a
bullet from his shoulder. Thanks to her father’s instruction Viola is, to put a
modern term to it, an exceptional physician’s assistant. Harry’s recovery
depends on the skill of these two people; a brother he dearly loves and a woman
who is about to change everything in his life.
Harry is a very
determined and a complicated man. From the moment he discovers Viola taking care of
him he is enthralled. He persuades her to care for him exclusively. Viola takes
his flirtations as just that because he is known as a rake. But Harry is more
than meets the eye and he is determined to convince her otherwise.
I really enjoyed this
book. It was fun to see some of the characters from the other books in the
series appear here. As soon as I finish a Sophie Barnes book, I find myself
smiling and looking forward to her next book. That, my friends, is a clear sign
of an auto-buy author for me.
