William Montclair and his brother Jack are in England to do business on behalf of their family’s Boston-based shipping company, but Will’s heart isn’t really in it.
This causes not a few sideways glances as Philippa is biracial – her mother was Indian – but Phillipa grows up beloved and happy. Right from the start, we see how the little girl enchants the Duchess, to whom she becomes the granddaughter of her heart, if not her blood and after the deaths of her father and step-mother, the Duchess takes Phillipa in and raises her. James, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Carlyle. Philippa Kirkpatrick’s widowed father has recently married Jessica St. The prologue introduces us to Our Heroine, Aged Four. I would just have liked more of an overall sense of completeness by the end. With all that said – don’t let it put you off listening the narration is very good, and the romance reaches a satisfying conclusion with the two leads nicely set up for a future together. The author has said that she’s writing an epilogue that should answer them all, but I still feel cheated if the story requires more chapters to finish it properly, then those chapters should have been included in THIS book – not as an optional extra. There are a number of plot points that are rushed or which don’t make much sense, and some important questions that remain unanswered by the end. Caroline Linden’s All the Duke I Need features a lovely, well-developed romance between two likeable and engaging characters – but as the finale of a series in which the overarching plot has focused on the search for the heir to a dukedom, it pains me to say that it falls somewhat short.
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