Kindle Price:	$4.99
Sold by:	Amazon.com Services LLC

Read with our free app

You've subscribed to ! We will preorder your items within 24 hours of when they become available. When new books are released, we'll charge your default payment method for the lowest price available during the pre-order period.

Update your device or payment method, cancel individual pre-orders or your subscription at
Your Memberships & Subscriptions

There was an error. We were unable to process your subscription due to an error. Please refresh and try again.

Follow the author

Cheryl Bolen

+ Follow

More books from this author

A Duke Deceived (The Deceived Series Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Cheryl Bolen (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.4 188 ratings

Book 1 of 2: The Deceived Series

See all formats and editions

Was Beauty to be Her Burden?

The unexpected and overwhelming proposal of marriage by Richard Moncrief, the Duke of Radcliff, was a dream come true to dowryless Bonny Barbara Allan—and her worst nightmare. For her reticent husband spoke endlessly of her beauty, yet never of her his love. And her clandestine visits to help her cousin weren’t easing matters at all . . .

His obsession with the fair Bonny Barbara allan was ruining the Duke of Radcliff’s heretofore orderly life. But how could he trust his new bride—and vow undying love—when she was secretly meeting another man?

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07SW4RJLB
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper & Appleton (July 1, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 1, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 443 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 331 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #866,808 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #15,034 in Regency Historical Romance
- #19,518 in Regency Romances

Customer Reviews:
4.4 188 ratings

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Videos

Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video!

Upload your video

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Cheryl Bolen

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Cheryl Bolen is the New York Times, USA Today best-selling author of more than three dozen Regency-set historical romance novels. Her books have placed in several writing contests, including the Daphne du Maurier, and have been translated into eight languages. She was named Notable New Author in 1999, and in 2006 she won the Holt Medallion (Honoring Outstanding Literary Talent) for Best Short Historical Novel. In 2012 she won Best Historical in the International Digital Awards for eBooks published the prior year, and one of her 2011 novellas won Best Historical Novella. Two of her books have been finalists for the RONE Award for Best Regency Historical. Her books have become Barnes & Noble bestsellers, and she's been an Amazon All Star Author multiple times.

Many of her readers love her many marriage of convenience stories. Her lighter books have been compared to Georgette Heyer and Julia Quinn, and her more emotional reads (where the heroine has many obstacles before her happy ending) have been compared to Mary Balogh.

A former journalist who admits to a fascination with dead Englishwomen, she has been a contributor to The Regency Plume, The Regency Reader, and The Quizzing Glass. Many of her articles can found on her website, www.CherylBolen.com, and more recent ones on her blog, www.CherylsRegencyRamblings.wordpress.com. Readers are welcomed at both places.

Cheryl holds a dual degree in English and journalism from the University of Texas, and she earned a master's degree from the University of Houston. She and her professor husband are the parents of two sons, one who is an attorney, and the other a journalist. Her favorite things to do are watching the UT Longhorns, traveling to England, and reading about dead English women.

In addition to many stand-alone novels, Cheryl currently has eight historical series for sale on Amazon.com, and one contemporary romantic suspense series:

THE BERESFORD ADVENTURES

Lady Mary's Dangerous Encounter (2021)

My Lord Protector (2021)

With a Little Help from My Lord (2021)

Rescued by a Rake (2023)

Vindicated by a Viscount (2023)

Defended by a Duke (2023)

BRIDES OF BATH SERIES (set in Regency England)

The Bride Wore Blue (Kensington, 2002)

With His Ring (Kensington, 2002)

A Fallen Woman (Kensington, 2002) (retitled The Bride's Secret in 2011)

An Improper Proposal (Kensington, 2004) (retitled To Take This Lord, 2011)

Love in the Library, (Harper & Appleton, 2014)

A Christmas in Bath (Harper & Appleton, 2014)

Once Upon a Time in Bath (October 2020)

The Wallflower's Christmas Wish (2022)

The Brides of Bath 1-6 Boxed Set

CHERYL BOLEN REGENCIES: A Mystery and a Match

With His Lady's Assistance 2011)

A Most Discreet Inquiry (2012)

A Theft Before Christmas (2013)

An Egyptian Affair (2015)

Regent Mysteries Boxed Set (2014)

BRAZEN BRIDES SERIES (set in Regency England)

Counterfeit Countess (Kensington, 2005)

The Wedding Bargain

A Proposal of Marriage

Oh What a (Wedding) Night - April 2016

Miss Hastings' Excellent London Adventure - May 2017

A Birmingham Family Christmas - October 2017

Brazen Brides boxed set (2017)

HOUSE OF HAVERSTOCK

A Lady by Chance (Kensington, 2000; Harper & Appleton, 2011)

Duchess by Mistake (Harper & Appleton, April 2015)

Countess by Coincidence (Harper & Appleton, July 2015))

Ex-Spinster by Christmas (Harper & Appleton, Nov. 2016)

House of Haverstock Boxed Set (2017)

Countess by Christmas (2021)

LORDS OF ETON

The Portrait of Lady Wycliff (2018)

The Earl, the Vow, and the Plain Jane (2018)

Last Duke Standing (2019)

Lords of Eton Boxed Set (2019)

One Room at the Inn (2020 Christmas novella)

THE DECEIVED SERIES

A Duke Deceived (1998)

His Lady Deceived (2019 Christmas novella)

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE SEQUELS

Miss Darcy's New Companion (2016)

Miss Darcy's Secret Love (2016)

The Liberation of Miss de Bourgh (2016)

Pride and Prejudice Sequels: 3 Jane Austen Inspired Novellas

TEXAS HEROINES IN PERIL (contemporary romantic suspense)

Protecting Britannia (2012)

Capitol Offense (2012)

A Cry in the Night (2012)

Murder at Veranda House (2012)

Customer reviews

4.4 out of 5

188 global ratings

How customer reviews and ratings work

Sort reviews by

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Élodie Nicoli

When truth is tested

Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2019

Verified Purchase

This is a beautiful tale about two persons who were destined to be together but hurt each other by their inability to communicate their feelings and not clear their own misconceptions.
To add to their burden, their journey to love was littered by protagonists who sought only to torn them apart .
This story shows how with time and by instilling slowly tiny bits of this and that plus keeping, even if it is innocent, things secret, it can destroy a fragile truce and it brings the worse in anybody even a lover.
At time I was upset by both, she for keeping secrets from her husband that appear as if she betrayed him and him for thinking the worst first without even questioning his wife’s faithfulness.
Bonny and Richard are two very likable characters, they both are kind and honest but because of a minor gesture at the beginning of their relationship, everything is put in jeopardize and any new detail is turned the wrong way as they are unable to clear the water and have a real talk. Why they became easy prey for all those who want to split them up and their task is even easier as they are so easily deceived.
They were lucky despite their flaws and failure to trust the other, as they are both guilty, to be surrounded by caring people whom will help straighten things for them, as Bonny and Richard are blind to another’s sentiments.
My only complain is the lack of epilogue and the rushed conclusion. Sure Richard handled his marriage poorly and confined Bonny to their home, a bit of grovel would have been nice but Bonny by not acknowledging her supporting her cousin and doing things behind Richard’s back has only fueled his deception.

Hopefully, the reedition of this book announces its as being the first in a series, so we will get a kind of epilogue with the next book to come.

I was provided a copy by Netgalley and the publisher Harpen&Appleton, but I purchased my own copy and here is my true and unbiased opinion.

4 people found this helpful

Helpful

RoloPoloBookBlog

4½ stars: Book #1: The Deceived Series

Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2019

Verified Purchase

A Duke Deceived by Cheryl Bolen
Book #1: The Deceived Series
Source: Author and Purchase
Rating: 4½/5 stars

At 34 years old, Richard Moncrief has never given much thought to the long term. As the Duke of Radcliff, his fortune was made and set long ago which has left him with time on his hands, money to burn, and a group of rowdy friends only interested in the pleasures life has to offer. In the blink of an eye, the life Richard Moncrief has so wholeheartedly and unabashedly lived comes into question the night he meets Bonny Barbara Allan. To his friends’ great surprise, Richard’s days of drunkenness and debauchery have come to an end as he sets his sights on marriage, family, and forever.

Bonnie Barbara Allan is beautiful, intelligent, kind, loyal, and from a titled family, but she has no money for a dowry and very little hope of making a love match. What wears on Barbara the most is not so much the idea of a loveless marriage, but the idea that some man will ask for her hand simply because of her beauty, that is, failing to see beyond the façade to her true character. When Richard Moncrief approaches Barbara she assumes it is because of her looks, but when he steps in to help her with her dying mother, Barbara hopes the Duke of Radcliff is a man capable of looking beneath the surface.

Overcome with desire and a deep sense of need to see Barbara happy, Richard proposes to and marries Barbara within weeks of meeting her. Both are deliriously happy with their marriage, but both also harbor secret concerns. Barbara is certain (without asking!) that Richard cannot possibly love her and only wants her for her beauty while Richard is certain (without asking!) that Barbara cannot possibly love him because her heart belongs to another. Though the first days and even weeks of their marriage are happy, events, people, and their own unfounded concerns conspire against the new couple and will stop at nothing to tear them apart.

As the weeks drag by, Barbara does her best to hide her fears and concerns and learn to fit into the esteemed role she has married into. She desperately loves Richard but simply cannot understand his erratic and often insensitive behavior. For Richard’s part, he his convinced his wife truly belongs to another and rather than asking questions and doing his own investigating, Richard reverts to his bachelor lifestyle hoping to shame or guilt his wife into changing her ways, missing, and loving him. Of course, life has a way of forcing the truth to come out and when it does, all hell breaks loose, hearts are broken, and some fences are never again going to be mended.

The Bottom Line: I’ve said it so many times before regarding Cheryl Bolen’s books and I’m saying it again, every book is like revisiting old friends. I fall into these books, these worlds, and these characters and simply don’t want to come out until the very last page. From the moment I met her, I liked Barbara and wanted nothing more than for her to be happy and fulfilled in her life. I very much liked Richard as well, even in his moments of prideful stupidity. What I liked more than anything else? Richard and Barbara together and married from early moments in the book. I liked knowing there was no way out of the marriage for either and all the angst and worry and frustration at their shared, though unrevealed, fears were going to be resolved and they would live happily ever after. The machinations of others to tear apart Barbara and Richard very nearly work, and I loved every minute of the drama, in all its time period appropriate politeness and propriety. I can’t imagine there will ever be a time when I won’t so enthusiastically adore on of Cheryl Bolen’s period pieces. I find them to be well-written, entertaining, authentic, and simply enjoyable.

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2019

Verified Purchase

I believe one should hate nothing but something evil but I truly hate it when I finish one of Cheryl Bolen's books. It is so evident she knows about love when I read the dedication in this book. She dedicated it to her husband with such warm and heartfelt words. The Duke of Radcliff was totally taken with Bonny Barbara Allen. She is the most beautiful woman he's ever seen. He meets Barbara at a ball and dances a waltz with her. He has a hard time getting her off of his mind. The next night there is another ball and while Barbara is consoling her cousin Emily the Duke and Emily's brother meet her with a letter stating her mother is on her death bed. The Duke offers to take Barbara home to be with her mother which is many days away. Barbara rushes to leave for the journey with Emily accompanying her but first she has to send a message to the Earl of Dunsford. The Duke misunderstood her intentions. While with her mother the Duke and Barbara make plans to marry before her mother's death. Shortly after they marry her mother dies. The Duke thinks all the time that Barbara is in love with the Earl. He has no idea Barbara is keeping a secret for her cousin Emily. His imagination almost causes him to lose everything.

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Pickle

COULD NOT PUT THIS DOWN, MADE ME HAPPY AND SAD.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 18, 2019

Verified Purchase

Absolutely fell in love with Richard (Duke of Radcliff) the characters in this book were all amazing , it was love at first sight between Richard and Barbara (Bonny).
It was very special and obvious to everyone only problem was they showed each other how much they loved them but never told each other, allowing others to make them doubt their love.
This is a wonderful story, can't wait for next book,

One person found this helpful

Olly

My wife enjoyed this book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 20, 2020

Verified Purchase

I did not read this book my wife did.

junek

A Duke deceived by Cheryl Bolen

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 13, 2021

Verified Purchase

Excellent read by Cheryl Bolen, a good storyline at times too sad. As a fantasy it is well written read.

Buy for others

Buying and sending eBooks to others

Follow the author

Image Unavailable

A Duke Deceived (The Deceived Series Book 1) Kindle Edition

Product details

Videos

About the author

Cheryl Bolen

Customer reviews

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top reviews from other countries