While the Duke Was Sleeping by Sophie Jordan

While You Were Sleeping but with a duke and a Scotsman? Did she reach inside my brain to find all of my favorite things? Oh boy! This is my catnip! Going into this, I was thrilled! Or how much Struan wants her for himself. There’s no way the haughty Duke of Autenberry would deign to wed a working class girl. Just like he knows the infuriating Poppy is a liar. the fantasy of her duke or the reality of one smoldering Scot who challenges her at every turn.Īn illegitimate second son, Struan may have built an empire and established himself as one of the wealthiest men in Britain, but he knows he will always be an outsider among the ton. Soon Poppy isn’t sure what she wants more. But one person isn’t fooled: his arrogant and much too handsome half-brother, Struan Mackenzie. After she pulls him to safety, the duke lapses into a coma and Poppy is mistaken for his fiancée. unlike the carriage Poppy spies bearing down upon the unsuspecting duke. Shop girl Poppy Fairchurch knows it’s pointless fantasizing about the Duke of Autenberry. (Nov.While the Duke Was Sleeping by Sophie Jordan Agent: Maura Kye-Casella, Don Congdon Associates. The complex characterization and eccentricities of Struan’s relatives refreshingly diverge from typical portrayals of Regency gentry. The novel hews very closely to the plot of its namesake film, including replicating some of its flaws, but Jordan ( Hell Breaks Loose) has added both disdain and heat to the familiar story. The feeling’s mutual, but she’s afraid he’ll hate her when he learns of her deception.

His ignoble motives change when he falls in love with her. Struan sees an opportunity to take a dig at his brother by stealing Poppy’s affections. Poppy moons after the duke, who’s a frequent patron at her London shop after saving his life, she’s mistaken for his fiancée, and his best friend convinces her to keep up the ruse. Poppy Fairchurch and her teenage sister are barely scraping by on Poppy’s bookstore wages. Struan’s accumulated wealth does nothing to impress his scornful half-brother, who now holds the Autenberry title. Struan Mackenzie’s father, the previous Duke of Autenberry, abandoned his pregnant mother and died before Struan could confront him. In this predictable but satisfying opening to the Rogue Files Regency-era series, a shop clerk falls for a self-made man.