{"id":33476,"date":"2024-03-27T13:13:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T13:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariahstone.com\/?post_type=books&#038;p=33476"},"modified":"2024-12-17T15:10:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T15:10:08","slug":"duke-of-luhst","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/mariahstone.com\/it\/books\/duke-of-luhst\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke of Luhst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nothing could change him for the better. Save, perhaps, her.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seductive as a deadly sin, Lucien Wrenn, the Duke of Luhst, can tempt any lady into his bed. But his best friend\u2019s little sister\u2014bluestocking scientist Lady Chasity Perrin\u2014is forbidden fruit. And he\u2019s spent a lifetime aching to take a bite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chastity has always loved Lucien but the thoughtful boy she cherished grew into a careless rogue. Content with her lot as a spinster, she fights to advance her medical research in a world that denies women&#8217;s place in science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They can never be together until they clash in a heated argument and make a scandalous wager\u2026 During a month-long house party, both must do the impossible: sinful Lucien must remain celibate and wallflower Chastity must secure a marriage proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When every eligible bachelor begins to compete for made-over Chastity, Lucien burns to claim her as his own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As summer storm traps them, no vow of friendship can hold him back from breaking every rule to possess her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As they grow closer &#8212; body and soul &#8212; his touch unravels her and she begins to crave something very dangerous: him. For the first time, someone sees straight to his wounded soul, and makes him want to be worthy of the only woman he loved his whole life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when Chastity&#8217;s older brother learns his sister has been compromised, all hell breaks loose.<br><br>Other volumes of the &#8216;Seven Dukes of Sin&#8217; series:<br>1 &#8211; Duke of Rath<br>2- Duke of Luhst<br>3 &#8211; Duke of Pryde<br><br>More books to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":35150,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false},"series":[35938],"trope":[35940,35941,35942],"genre":[35926],"audiobooks":[35930],"class_list":["post-33476","books","type-books","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","series-sevendukes","trope-steamy-romance","trope-marriage-of-conveniences","trope-found-family","genre-regency-historical-romance","audiobooks-audiobook"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariahstone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/33476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariahstone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariahstone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariahstone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariahstone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariahstone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=33476"},{"taxonomy":"trope","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariahstone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trope?post=33476"},{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariahstone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=33476"},{"taxonomy":"audiobooks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariahstone.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audiobooks?post=33476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}