2024/107: The Duke at Hazard — K J Charles

2024/107: The Duke at Hazard — K J Charles

Daizell was ingenious, and Cassian was a duke, with all that entailed: wealth, power, authority. Between them, they’d come up with something, just as soon as Cassian admitted that he’d been lying to him from the moment they’d met. [p. 211]

The Duke of Severn is an unassuming young man with many names and titles. He goes by his favourite of those names, Cassian, when he's travelling the West Midlands incognito -- ostensibly because of a wager with his cousin Leo, that he couldn't survive for a month without the trappings of his title, but actually because, following an ill-judged liaison with a handsome young fellow at an inn, the Duke's ancestral ring (along with everything else he carried, including his clothes) was stolen. ( Read more... )