How to Lose a Duke in Ten Days

An American Heiress in London

By: Laura Lee Guhrke

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

From USA Today best-selling author Laura Lee Guhrke comes the story of a bargain, a marriage of convenience…and the chance for love to last a lifetime.

They had a deal....

From the moment she met the devil-may-care Duke of Margrave, Edie knew he could change her life. And when he agreed to her outrageous proposal of a marriage of convenience, she was transformed from ruined American heiress to English duchess. Five years later, she’s delighted with their arrangement, especially since her husband is living on another continent.

But deals are made to be broken.…

By marrying an heiress, Stuart was able to pay his family’s enormous debts, and Edie’s terms that he leave England forever seemed a small price to pay. But when a brush with death impels him home, he decides it’s time for a real marriage with his luscious American bride, and he proposes a bold new bargain: 10 days to win her willing kiss. But is 10 days enough to win her heart?

©2014 Laura Lee Guhrke (P)2014 HarperCollins Publishers

The Duke’s got his work cut out for him

Spoiler alert,this isn’t your typical romance,no sexy scenes here.Horrible things have happened to the main characters.Stuart was coping,Edie not so much.Gonna take more than 10 days to work through her fear.More dramatic than romantic.

Enjoyed.....very good!!!

Where does How to Lose a Duke in Ten Days rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

I really enjoyed this book, the struggle the two went through and how it ended

What did you like best about this story?

The way he never gave up

What does Susan Ericksen bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

I though she was very good, would listen to her again

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

There were several, I don't want to give anything away but this was a moving, fun, sweet book.

Don't Judge The Book By The Tittle.

Don't Judge The Book By The Tittle OR You'll be dissappointed. At first I thought this is kind of light romance about how to get rid of unsuitable man for a husband, instead I find the story so charming and sweet that involve marriage of convenient and hidden dark past. My first with the story theme, as well as the author and the narrator. So happy to find it undissappointing, and so glad to spend my credit on it.

Meh, and trigger warning for some

First of all. I can’t believe there is no trigger warning about this one. It is heavy in rape recovery. Very heavily centers on it in fact. The entire books plot is centered around it and its not until the very long end that we see resolution. For me, it was a good story until about halfway through and I just wanted the dang story to moovvveeee oooonnnnnn! I get that rape is not something that a person can just move on from in a rapid pace, but we don’t necessarily come to fiction, especially historical romances, looking for such deep and heavy topics. I appreciate when they are visited, and I don’t even mind when its the plot, but for some reason this just seemed the same chapter over and over again. Like it just didn’t progress, but was repeated in a different way. Idk, All I know is that in the beginning I really loved the story, and by the end I was extremely thankful it was over.

Susan Ericksen was fabulous. I think she could read the label on a cereal box and have it sound interesting. Lol.

All in all, I got this in a 2 for 1 sale and while I don’t regret reading it, I definitely will never listen to it again.

Excellent !!!

This very emotional love story by Laura Lee Guhrke told through Susan Ericksen's flawless narration yields an easy 5 stars!!!

Emotional and heart breaking

this book is an erotic historical romance.

Duke of Margrave Stuart is not ready to settle down, but he is on the verge of having no money soon unless he can get rid of a few relatives that are nothing more than taking everything. But when the American heiress gives him an offer with no string attach of course he jumps at the chance to leave everything behind and continue as he was. Until an accident and he being to realize that there is more waiting for him. So he wants to have a real family, but his wife wants nothing to do with it and after he finds out why, he might have to let go of his dream to have an unconditional love with his wife.

American heiress Edie is running from something and the only way to get out of this is to marry someone who is never around. When she finds Stuart, who would rather live a life in Africa than be tied down. She has the means to help him financially and no inclination to be with any man. It is perfect and it was going great for 5 years, but now her husband wants to be a husband and break the agreement to never see each other.

Uh...no. Narrator was all wrong.

Ms. Guhrke is not a favorite of mine and this book didn't change that. The narrator was all wrong for this book, making the story so verrrryyy loooooong. I skipped from chapter 5 to chapter 20. Was surprised that only two weeks had passed. Narration and dialogue can make or break a book. This is a broken book.

Wonderful! Simply Wonderful!

I love anything narrated by Susan Erickson. The story line kind of started off slow but, then it gripped you to the very end.

Enjoyed

I was surprised how much I like it. interesting love story that was really sweet in some areas but also good build on sexual tension.

TW: depictions of Sexual Assault/Discussion of SA

This is the second in the series and the second trigger warning my reviews have had. This one was heavy. I don’t mind discussion of heavy topics, but I’m not sure this one was carried out as well as it maybe could have been.

I come to these types of books because they’re swoony and make my feet kick. This book had so much discussion of sexual assault. It just wasn’t my cup of tea.