How to Dance With a Duke

How to Dance With a Duke by Manda Collins. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780312549244.

How to Dance With a Duke Manda Collins Whats a wallflower to do when shes suddenly in need of a husband? Use all the pluck and moxie she can muster to get what she wants… Miss Cecily Hurston would much rather explore the antiquities of Egypt than the uncharted territory of marriage. But the rules of her fathers exclusive academic society forbid her entrance unless she weds one of its members. To clear her ailing fathers name of a scandalous rumor, Cecily needs to gain admission into the Egyptian Club―and is willing to marry any old dullard to do it. Lucas Dalton, Duke of Winterson, is anything but dull. Hes a dashing and decorated war hero determined to help Cecily―even if that means looking the other way when she claims the dance card of Amelia Snow, this seasons most sought-after beauty. But Lucas has a reason for wanting Cecily to join the Egyptian Club: His brother went missing during one of Lord Hurstons expeditions to Egypt. An alliance with the explorers bluestocking daughter could bring Lucas closer to the truth about what happened…or it could lead him to a more dangerous love than either he or Cecily could have imagined….