However, one of the stipulations of accepting the scholarship is that she now has to try and recruit influential men to champion their cause. One reason she is able to attend Oxford is that she was awarded a stipend by the National Society for Women’s Suffrage. Even though she is not taught in a classroom like the men but given solo lessons with a professor, she is excited about both the big and little things from attending Oxford to finally having her own bed. Annabelle Archer has finally escaped her role as housekeeper and childcare giver in her cousin’s home and is one of the first women accepted into Oxford University. The year is 1879 and the Women’s Suffrage movement in England is gaining traction. It didn’t take many to hook me, but this one right here cemented my love of the genre. I am officially obsessed with historical romance. Locked in a battle with rising passion and a will matching her own, Annabelle will learn just what it takes to topple a duke…. But he wouldn’t be the greatest strategist of the Kingdom if he couldn’t claim this alluring bluestocking without the promise of a ring…or could he? He is looking for a wife of equal standing to secure the legacy he has worked so hard to rebuild, not an outspoken commoner who could never be his duchess. Sebastian is appalled to find a suffragist squad has infiltrated his ducal home, but the real threat is his impossible feelings for green-eyed beauty Annabelle.

Her challenge: not to give in to the powerful attraction she can’t deny for the man who opposes everything she stands for.

Her target: Sebastian Devereux, the cold and calculating Duke of Montgomery who steers Britain’s politics at the Queen’s command. Her charge: recruit men of influence to champion their cause. In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising women’s suffrage movement. Buy it: The Ripped Bodice – Kindle – AmazonĪ stunning debut for author Evie Dunmore and her Oxford Rebels, in which a fiercely independent vicar’s daughter takes on a duke in a fiery love story that threatens to upend the British social order.Įngland, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford.

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