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Bringing Down the Duke was Evie Dunmore’s 2019 debut and the first novel in her ‘League of Extraordinary Women’ series. Set in England, 1879, Annabelle Archer is the fiercely independent daughter of a country vicar. Having earned herself a scholarship at the University of Oxford, Annabelle is a part of the university’s first female cohort. The only condition of her scholarship is that she recruits men of influence to the cause of the suffragists. Annabelle sets her sights on Sebastian Devereux, Duke of Montgomery and a prominent political figure who holds immense sway with the Queen. This cold, taciturn Duke proves a challenge—appalled by everything that Annabelle stands for. Nevertheless, this unlikely pair are undeniably drawn to each other, and soon the two find themselves locked in a battle of powerful wills and equally powerful love.
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