Five Days With A Duke By Christi Caldwell

Five Days with a Duke by Christi Caldwell
Series: The Heart of a Scandal Series Book #5
on January 2, 2026
Genres: Fiction / Romance / Historical / Regency
Pages: 212
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The 5th and final installment in Christi Caldwell's Heart of a Scandal series will have readers sighing, swooning, and laughing out loud!Years earlier, Connell Wordsworth, the Duke of Renaud gave up the woman he wanted for the responsibilities thrust upon him. After loss upon loss, he heads to London, for a new home with no memories, no staff, and the only thing he wants in life...to be alone. He's managing that feat quite nicely until...Lady Constance Brandley, has a secret. She and her family don't have two farthings to rub together. A spinster, long past the age of either love or marriage, she finds herself presented with a unique opportunity that could improve her circumstances. Except, that opportunity also brings the unlikeliest of gentlemen into her life-her best friend's former betrothed, the Duke of Renaud.Thrown together with the notorious scoundrel, it isn't long before Constance discovers there's far more to Connell, the Duke of Renaud than the world sees. And soon she finds herself longing for, everything she shouldn't-the heart of a duke.The Heart of a Scandal Series Includes: Prequel Novella--In Need of a Knight Schooling the DukeA Lady's Guide to a Gentleman's HeartA Matchmaker for a MarquessHis Duchess for a DayFive Days With A Duk

Five Days With a Duke is the last in The Heart of a Scandal series by Christi Caldwell. What a magical ride! I thoroughly enjoyed this book as well as the entire series. Caldwell has a gift of creating touchable, realistic characters who leap off the page and dare you to join their world. Five Days didn’t disappoint. I loved the heroine Lady Constance Brandley. At thirty, she is decidedly on the shelf – a fixed spinster in her household. Her family is living a secretly impoverished life. So when Constance is given an opportunity to write an advice column to earn some extra coin, she takes it. Only it leads her to an unlikely hero – The Duke of Renaud, Connell Wordsworth. Connell is first briefly introduced in book two: A Lady’s Guide to a Gentleman’s Heart. Though you don’t have to go back and read that book, I highly recommend it. I think I fell a little bit in love with Connell. ‘“I was correct,”he said in quiet tones. “Billiards is surely the way to any duke’s heart.”The air hissed and popped like the earth right before a lightning strike. Her breathing increased. Their fingers twined, wrapping around and between like climbing ivy. Feeling very much like she was ensnared by that tenacious green she could not bring herself to break the contact. She reveled in the forbidden tingles that burned a path up her arm. Then Connell tugged her forward into his arms, and she went. She went gladly and eagerly and with abandon.” Wow! Loved it! You can’t go wrong with a Caldwell romance.