![]() ![]() ![]() Lorraine Heath gets major bonus points for not making Walfort abusive. Given their serious reservations things start slowly, but then – VOOM! – they fall madly in love, spend the balance of the month revelling in each other and are left in a predicament: How does one retreat from a newly discovered love and move forward in the public lie one has created? The answer is, of course, by vilifying the invalid spouse. ![]() Ainsley and Jayne head to his remote six bedroom fully staffed cottage for their month-long tryst. Waking Up with the Duke is a marriage of convenience historical romance built around an inconvenient existing marriage. The marriage is hollow, but Walfort and Jayne do, strictly platonically, love each other. Jayne blames Ainsley for Walfort’s injury and the loss of all of her hopes and dreams. Ainsley very sensibly does not want to cuckold his friend, no matter what his debt/guilt, and, of course, he has always had a yen for Jayne and knows permission to act on it is a Very Bad Idea. ![]() Ainsley and Jayne are dead set against it. Left paralysed and impotent by a drunken carriage accident Ainsley caused, Walfort feels he is owed this opportunity to give his wife the child he is unable to. The Marquess of Walfort has a proposal for the Duke of Ainsley: For one month, Ainsley and Walfort’s Marchioness, Jayne, will shag each other rotten in an attempt to knock her up. ![]()
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