Unfortunately, someone in Bellehaven wants to kill him-and he intends to find out who. The truth is he came to the seaside resort of Bellehaven Bay to escape his life in London. Especially one with a head wound-who's convinced he's a duke.Īndrew Keane is the Duke of Hawking, but he's having the devil of a time convincing his fiery-haired rescuer of that fact.

The very last thing Poppy expects or wants to find tangled in them is a dangerously attractive man. But she'll do anything for her family, so she cheerfully spends mornings in her rowboat, casting her nets. Her poor widowed father has fallen ill, and her foolhardy brother has moved to London, leaving her precious little time to read or pursue her own dreams.

Miss Poppy Summers is determined to keep her family's fishing business afloat. 'Tantalizing.readers will be swept away.' - Publishers Weekly (Jan.The next delightful novel in Anna Bennett's Rogues to Lovers series! Bennett makes up for this, however, with the genuine feeling of connection between her leads and the vivid seaside scene setting. The mystery itself feels a bit half-baked the characters take a somewhat nonsensical approach to the investigation and the twist is easily guessed. As they work through Keane’s list of possibilities, mutual attraction gives way to tender sex scenes-but Poppy’s still wary of risking her heart. Keane, for his part, is instantly smitten with Poppy and recruits her help in finding his enemy. She’s certainly not expecting the duke to prove charming, kind, and intelligent-or for him to treat her with such remarkable respect and care. Poppy’s distrustful of the nobility due to a painful family history, but she reluctantly accepts. Poppy saves his life and tries to run for help, but Keane reasons he’ll have better luck sussing out his would-be killer if whoever it is believes he’s dead, and offers Poppy an exorbitant sum to hide him instead. He’s Andrew Keane, Duke of Hawking, and a mysterious attacker tried to drown him. Bennett’s tantalizing second Rogues to Lovers Regency romance (after Girls Before Earls) gets off to a memorable start: fisherwoman Poppy Summers catches a man in her net.

One Duke Down by Anna Bennett