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Portrait of a Scotsman

A League of Extraordinary Women, Book 3

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Portrait of a Scotsman

By: Evie Dunmore
Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki
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Going toe-to-toe with a brooding Scotsman is rather bold for a respectable suffragist, but when he happens to be one's unexpected husband, what else is an unwilling bride to do?

London banking heiress Hattie Greenfield wanted just three things in life:

  1. Acclaim as an artist
  2. A noble cause
  3. Marriage to a young lord who puts the gentle in gentleman

Why then does this Oxford scholar find herself at the altar with the darkly attractive financier Lucian Blackstone? Trust Hattie to take an invigorating little adventure too far. Now she's stuck with a churlish Scot who just might be the end of her ambitions....

When the daughter of his business rival all but falls into his lap, Lucian sees opportunity. As a self-made man, he has vast wealth but holds little power, and Hattie might be the key to finally setting his political plans in motion. Driven by an old desire for revenge, he has no room for his new wife's apprehensions or romantic notions, bewitching as he finds her.

But a sudden journey to Scotland paints everything in a different light. Hattie slowly sees the real Lucian and realises she could win everything - as long as she is prepared to lose her heart.

©2021 Evie Dunmore (P)2021 Hachette Audio UK Historical Historical Fiction Regency Regency Romance Romance Victorian Marriage Heartfelt Scotland Business

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Critic reviews

"Evie Dunmore has done it again! A must-read for historical romance lovers." (Chanel Cleeton)

"Dunmore creates pure magic with this charming, romantic novel." (Jennifer Probst)

"Anyone who binge-watched Bridgerton needs this feminist regency romance on their radar." (Cosmopolitan)
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The Scottish accents are pretty bad but I enjoyed it anyway.
A strong addition to the series.

Bad accents good book

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My favourite romance novels, each new one is better than the previous one and it already started fantastic!

Amazing

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I found Bringing Down the Duke and A Rogue of One’s Own entertaining enough to continue the series. I wish I had not. Hattie’s character had plenty of potential. She started as a sweet but somewhat sheltered and overindulged rich girl struggling to find her purpose in the world. Towards the middle, she was a bit irritating but at least she was making some progress towards becoming less selfish, but near the end she showed that she hadn’t actually made much personal development and really was, deep down in her heart, a self-centred girl who puts her own feelings and desires above anyone else’s needs or desires. Lucian deserved so much better. I also disliked how the author kept switching between historically believable approaches to situations and clearly very modern approaches- flip flopping back and forth, back and forth. She did the same thing to some degree in the earlier 2 books, but it was much more pronounced and jarring in this one. The narrator also struggled with her accents this book. Her Scottish accent was closer to Northern England/Yorkshire accent and even then she didn’t use it consistently. If you can’t do accents well, you are better off not trying them at all.

Lucian deserves so much better

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