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Falling Into Bed with a Duke: A Hellions of Havisham Novel (The Hellions of Havisham Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Lorraine Heath (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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In the first in a dazzling new series, New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath introduces the Hellions of Havisham—three charismatic rogues destined to lose their hearts . . .

After six unsuccessful Seasons, Miss Minerva Dodger chooses spinsterhood over fortune-hungry suitors. But thanks to the Nightingale Club, she can at least enjoy one night of pleasure. At that notorious establishment, ladies don masks before choosing a lover. The sinfully handsome Duke of Ashebury is more than willing to satisfy the secretive lady's desires—and draws Minerva into an exquisite, increasingly intimate affair.

A man of remarkable talents, Ashe soon deduces that his bedmate is the unconventional Miss Dodger. Intrigued by her wit and daring, he sets out to woo her in earnest. Yet Minerva refuses to trust him. How to court a woman he has already thoroughly seduced? And how to prove that the passion unleashed in darkness is only the beginning of a lifetime's pleasure . . . ?

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''Heath steals your heart, then takes you on a journey that will leave you torn between tears and joy.'' --Christina Dodd, New York Times bestselling author, praise for the author

''Heath is a consummate storyteller, whose characters leap from the pages.'' --RT Book Reviews, praise for the author

''Lorraine Heath has long been an author readers trust when they want to read a heart-warming historical, one that will entertain them and make them shed a tear or two. That's probably because the emotions in Heath's stories are genuine.'' --Happy Ever After blog on USA Today

''...wonderfully entertaining... Heath adeptly juggles numerous new and familiar characters as she sweeps fans of her Regency novels into the Victorian era.'' --Publishers Weekly

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In the first in a dazzling new series, New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath introduces the Hellions of Havisham—three charismatic rogues destined to lose their hearts . . .

After six unsuccessful Seasons, Miss Minerva Dodger chooses spinsterhood over fortune-hungry suitors. But thanks to the Nightingale Club, she can at least enjoy one night of pleasure. At that notorious establishment, ladies don masks before choosing a lover. The sinfully handsome Duke of Ashebury is more than willing to satisfy the secretive lady's desires—and draws Minerva into an exquisite, increasingly intimate affair.

A man of remarkable talents, Ashe soon deduces that his bedmate is the unconventional Miss Dodger. Intrigued by her wit and daring, he sets out to woo her in earnest. Yet Minerva refuses to trust him. How to court a woman he has already thoroughly seduced? And how to prove that the passion unleashed in darkness is only the beginning of a lifetime's pleasure . . . ?

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00T3DNJKI
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Avon (October 27, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 27, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.3 MB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 387 pages
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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lorraine Heath always dreamed of being a writer. After graduating from the University of Texas, she wrote training manuals, press releases for a publicist, articles, and computer code, but something was always missing. When she read a romance novel, she became not only hooked on the genre, but quickly realized what her writing lacked: rebels, scoundrels, and rogues. She's been writing about them ever since. Her work has been recognized with numerous industry awards including RWA's RITA(R).

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Customers find the book enjoyable and engaging. They praise the compelling storyline, well-developed characters, and lyrical prose. The characters are described as charming, clever, and strong-willed. Readers appreciate the author's imaginative writing style and her ability to create an original narrative.

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48 customers mention "Readability"48 positive0 negative

Customers find the book enjoyable and engaging. They describe it as a fun, easy read with likable characters. Some readers recommend reading the rest of the series.

"...This book can be read as a stanalone, but the others are so good, I recommend reading them all. STAR RATING: I give this book 4.5 stars." Read more

"...Overall the plot was predictable but still a fun read." Read more

"Loved this book. Could not put it down." Read more

"...this can most definitely be read as a stand-alone; however, I highly recommend reading them all!..." Read more

47 customers mention "Story quality"37 positive10 negative

Customers enjoy the compelling story. They find it a personal discovery for both the heroine and hero. The stories intertwine with previous books, creating a fantastic plot. Readers appreciate the emotional depth and authenticity of the events.

"...novel is often filled with lyrical prose that well expresses the longing and completeness of love...." Read more

"For fans of Lorraine Heath’s regency series, this was a nice continuation to re-visit some of her beloved characters...." Read more

"...This a relationship building romance and Not one full of angst. Minerva and Ashe have great conversations and learn about each other...." Read more

"This was an interesting story. It kept my interest from the very beginning until the end...." Read more

19 customers mention "Likable characters"16 positive3 negative

Customers find the characters enjoyable. They appreciate the believable motivations and character growth. The characters have depth of personality and are well-developed. Readers enjoy the strong, bold heroine and the visits to past characters. Overall, the characters seem to come alive on the page with humor and wit.

"...The characters are well written and developed. They have layers of personality. This a relationship building romance and Not one full of angst...." Read more

"...Minerva and Ashe were wonderful characters, sufficiently complex, but they didn't beat me down with angst. Nor did the story...." Read more

"...I really loved these characters a lot. Ashebury, of course, is so appealing you cannot help yourself...." Read more

"...And Minerva Dodger is a wonderful character. Love her and all the scenes with her parents...." Read more

17 customers mention "Writing quality"17 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the writing quality. They praise the author's originality, lyrical prose, imagination, and talent. The book is filled with interesting dialogue and witty banter between characters.

"...He'd been mistaken. He wanted her." FINAL DECISION: Witty and filled with incredible longing...." Read more

"...in a new series by Lorraine Heath reminds one of the exceptional talents of this author...." Read more

"...a prologue filled with pathos and ended with an epilogue that had me laughing out loud. And in between it was all about Minerva and Ashe...." Read more

"...Love her and all the scenes with her parents. So well-written, and the characters I love from Heath's earlier books have just gotten better...." Read more

14 customers mention "Appeal"14 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the book's charm and unique style. They find the characters appealing, with Minerva Dodger being described as beautiful, strong-willed, and clever. The story is described as original and a gem by Cathy Maxwell.

"...Minerva who is strong willed, smart, clever and stubborn is also vulnerable because she truly believes that no one can want her for herself...." Read more

"...the streets (& former Game Hell owner) and woman of the ton, Minerva Dodger has beauty (though she doesn’t believe so), intellectual smarts & street..." Read more

"...I really loved these characters a lot. Ashebury, of course, is so appealing you cannot help yourself...." Read more

"...Ashe was pretty much you typical HR hero, however I did find him charming and likeable...." Read more

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Customers appreciate the book's knowledge. They find the characters intelligent and complex, with a nice understanding of the hellions. The story is told with humor, intelligence, and passion.

"...Minerva who is strong willed, smart, clever and stubborn is also vulnerable because she truly believes that no one can want her for herself...." Read more

"...Minerva and Ashe were wonderful characters, sufficiently complex, but they didn't beat me down with angst. Nor did the story...." Read more

"...These characters are so multi-dimensional and complex that their relationships and interactions make for a fantastic plot...." Read more

"Minerva has had six seasons with a huge dowry, and is knowledgeable and outspoken, so all her suitors want her for her dowry, rather than herself...." Read more

6 customers mention "Strength"6 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the strong female character. They find Lorraine Heath does a good job of portraying her strength while keeping her feminine and showing her vulnerability.

"...Minerva who is strong willed, smart, clever and stubborn is also vulnerable because she truly believes that no one can want her for herself...." Read more

"...Lorraine Heath does an amazing job of displaying Minerva’s strength while keeping her very feminine & showing her vulnerability and giving Nicholas..." Read more

"So nice to have an HR with a strong, bold heroine. Loved her pride in her commoner father and how she wasn't afraid to be herself...." Read more

"...I did. Strong female - supportive family, tragedy for the hero and happily ever after" Read more

5 customers mention "Family support"5 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the book's family support. They mention the author has a loving family and life. They are close and treat each other like brothers. They also appreciate her pride in her commoner father and how she was not afraid to be herself.

"...They are very close and treat each other like brothers. I believe Edward and Locksley will be the characters in the next books...." Read more

"...after at one point or the other but otherwise had a wonderful loving family and life... A life where maybe not always appreciated by her peers had..." Read more

"So nice to have an HR with a strong, bold heroine. Loved her pride in her commoner father and how she wasn't afraid to be herself...." Read more

"...I don't like spoilers so I won't go into detail. It was nice to visit with old friends, I would have like to have seen the original scoundrels...." Read more

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  • Sheila M
    5.0 out of 5 stars Heath's New Series Debut Combines New Characters with Old Favorites
    Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2015
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    "He'd though he wanted a tall woman. He'd been mistaken. He wanted her."

    FINAL DECISION: Witty and filled with incredible longing. I appreciate how Heath manages to fill her books with imperfect characters who exist in a word where each is longing for love and imperfect perfection.

    THE STORY: MIss MInerva Dodger has had enough after six seasons fending off fortune hunters. Only willing to marry for love, Minerva has given up. Instead she intends to visit a notorious club where women meet lovers in order that she might have one perfect night where someone desires her. Nicholson Lambert, Duke of Ashebury arrives at the club looking for imperfect perfection to add to his collection. When he spies the disguised Minerva, he finds a woman who intrigues him especially because she insists on remaining anonymous. When Ashe realizes that he cannot stop thinking of the mysterous woman, he is determined to track her down.

    OPINION: This book is a continual surprise. Heath places her characters in situations that I've read before but then twists and turns the story in new and unexpected ways. Minerva who is strong willed, smart, clever and stubborn is also vulnerable because she truly believes that no one can want her for herself. Meeting Ashe while she is masked gives Minerva an opportunity to find her own self-confidence. Her fear is that if Ashe discovered her true identity that his interest would dissolve. What she doesn't know is that Ashe quickly suspects her identity and continues her pursuit. There is a complication to their courtship that almost derails their happiness. I appreciated that Heath solves that dilemma with unique flair.

    A Heath novel is often filled with lyrical prose that well expresses the longing and completeness of love. I always feel that I have read something beautiful in reading the words that her characters use to describe their emotions. The characters surrender themselves totally to love and to one another by the end and that brings joy.

    Heath also does a good job of giving her characters emotional, physical and societal challenges that must be overcome. Her characters are thus given a complexity that makes their triumph at the end especially unique.

    WORTH MENTIONING: I was incredibly pleased with the numerous appearances by characters from the connected series.

    CONNECTED BOOKS: FALLING INTO BED WITH A DUKE is the first book in the Hellions of Havisham series. This series is about a group of men who were orphaned as boys and went to live with their mad guardian (who also had a son). The boys ran wild -- thus are known as hellions. This series is connected with both the Scoundrels of St. James (especially BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND DESIRE which is the story of Minerva's parents) and the Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James (especially WHEN THE DUKE WAS WICKED which is the story of MInerva's half brother). This book can be read as a stanalone, but the others are so good, I recommend reading them all.

    STAR RATING: I give this book 4.5 stars.
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  • EE
    4.0 out of 5 stars Quick and fun read
    Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2023
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    For fans of Lorraine Heath’s regency series, this was a nice continuation to re-visit some of her beloved characters. Overall the plot was predictable but still a fun read.
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  • Dakeya
    5.0 out of 5 stars Page Turner
    Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2025
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    Loved this book. Could not put it down.
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  • Edwina "I Love books"
    5.0 out of 5 stars LOVABLE CHARACTERS!! BEAUTIUFL ROMANCE!!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2015
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    Falling In Bed With A Duke is a great beginning to Lorraine Heath's new Historical Romance, Late Victorian Era. The story opens with 3 young boys whose parents have been killed in a train accident. One is the newly minted Duke of Ashebury , The Earl of Greyling and is twin brother Edward. . They are now the new wards to the Marquess of Marsden. The Marquess has gone quite mad, insane after the death of his wife. He has a young son Locksley. The boy basically raised themselves and 20 years later are know as the Hellions. They are very close and treat each other like brothers. I believe Edward and Locksley will be the characters in the next books. At least I hope so.

    Ashe meets Minerva Dogger at the Nightingale Club. A Private club for women to meet men. She is there to lose her virginity. She is a very rich Spinster with a huge dowry. The women that frequent the Club wear mask to conceal there identities and the men don't so the women know who they are. Ashe is drawn to Minerva and they start a slow hot burning relationship which turns into love. The characters are well written and developed. They have layers of personality. This a relationship building romance and Not one full of angst. Minerva and Ashe have great conversations and learn about each other. They actually grown in love with each other. They have a hot seamy sexual romance. They both are loveable characters. There is a host of supporting characters that I enjoyed also and hope to see them with there own stories. If there is one thing I could change it would be at the very end when Minerva overhears a conversation about Ashe Marrying her for her dowry. That wasn't necessary as the story was air tight without it. I Highly Recommend "Falling Into Bed With A Duke"
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  • Yellow Rose
    3.0 out of 5 stars A duke after a lady dowry
    Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2019
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    I really expecting more of this book. I do not mean that is a bad book. I had had read many books of mrs health and I like all of them. I do not understand how I felt the book a drag. Minerva is the daughter of Dodger a ex owner of gamble club and he was a character of the scoundrels of saint james, my favorite series. A man of the streets who together with the urchins and a girl an urchin like the boys. Mrs health wrote a series of the children’s of the gang. Corvinton was the son of duke of corvington. Mr Dodger Minerva father and his half brother and that was a issue because her half brother was her father brother. Why mrs health does wrote about that issue. Minerva brother was her uncle but show like she does not know it. I knew that because I read dodger story. Maybe she wants to keep the secret and I do understand that it will destroy Minerva and her half brother. Well that is not the story is Minerva story and she a splinter having 6 season and candidates are only for her inheritance. She resigned to be splinter but she seeks a man who loves her. Well she goes to a club where man and woman of aristocracy and we off commoners to seeks for adventure and sex encounter marry or singles. She mees Arche an impoverished duke who finds her and they started see each other. Naturally she covers her face and he does not who she is. Archer discover who she is. The first chapters were boring and I started to jump one page to other page. The true that was the last chapters when I started to get more interesting but really Minerva was not pleasant to me always complaining that all the man seeks her for money. Really I do not like her. I hope that mrs health does not write other characters. I will read the next one and hope that is Edward story.
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  • Sandra
    4.0 out of 5 stars Cute
    Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2024
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    This was an interesting story. It kept my interest from the very beginning until the end. It even set up the storyline for the two upcoming bookstores.
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  • Michael Williams
    5.0 out of 5 stars Regency romance
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 17, 2022
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    Very good tale full of interest.
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  • Carmen M
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great read, kept me turning the pages
    Reviewed in Australia on April 22, 2017
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    I loved the feisty, sassy, smart heroine and the gorgeous hero she brought to his knees. The story had me enthralled on what would happen next, and the side characters are so interesting I can't wait to read their stories.
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  • Rosewood
    4.0 out of 5 stars The bold and beautiful
    Reviewed in Canada on March 16, 2016
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    Book 1 in "The Hellions of Havisham Series " - Minerva is an intelligent and spunky woman with a large dowry who has decided not to marry because all of her suitors are in love with her dowry. So she is going to live her life on her own terms but first she wants to spend one night with a lover - just to experience lust. I thought this novel was so accurate about how women weren't expected to have a brain in those eras so she would have been a disappointment to the silly men that were thinking she was the problem instead of themselves. I liked her bold and daring solutions and quips and I loved the Duke. This novel was a great start to the new series.
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  • alp
    5.0 out of 5 stars good
    Reviewed in India on July 4, 2016
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    Good time pass.
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  • Bron D
    4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable Historical Romance
    Reviewed in Australia on February 21, 2021
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    A fabulous historical romance that features some unique plot elements interwoven with a lot of London society events. Minerva is the headstrong spinster and Ashebury is the darling Duke of society. However the first meeting by way of the Nightingale club mixes up the standard way such a story would work.

    This book is intermittently steamy and does depict sex before marriage, and the construct of the Nightingale club justifies this and alludes heavily to a variety of kink/fetish. My only complaint is that the book is almost too wholesome despite the set up of the Nightingale club. I found the writing less interesting in these areas than in some other books. It was good though, and tended to feature female pleasure more than male pleasure.

    I appreciated the male lead was depicted with a learning disability. However I feel it that element of his character just got resolved in a single page after he worried about it the whole time. So it's difficult to say whether I think it was overplayed or underplayed.

    It could have been 5 stars, except I found it dragged slightly through the middle and one of the big disagreements was foreshadowed for the whole book but not realised until quite close to the end. Rushing a lot of the fun into the last 20%. At one point it slowed to a 3 star, but the ending picked up so well that the romantic conclusion draw a tear from my eye - that earns a star in itself.

    This book sets up the characters for the other two books in the series. So if you're anything like me you'll immediately want to read those too.
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