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BOTM 2 – November 2025 – How to Entice an Enchantress
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I'm starting this book today. I hope it can be read as a standalone 🤞
That was my question. Does anybody know if it can stand alone easily? Lauren, I'll be interested to see how you find it.
It can be read as a standalone. The past characters are referenced but not in this story.
Lauren wrote: "It can be read as a standalone. The past characters are referenced but not in this story."Thank you Lauren. I will try a sample of the book :)
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Lauren - did you read it? Thoughts?
Susan, I finished this book last week. It was okay. I agree. It was missing some of the charm that was so great in her MacClean Curse series.
Join us in reading this HR that firs the theme:Widow/Widower. Happy reading!
How to Entice an Enchantress– Karen Hawkins
Synopsis:
The third sizzling novel in New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins’s Duchess Diaries series, featuring three unruly sisters and their headstrong godmother with a penchant for matchmaking.
Reclusive Viscount Kirk, horribly scarred by a tragic accident that stole the life of his beloved first wife, is a man defined by fury. For years he’s eschewed society, growing abrupt and curmudgeonly. But now, when he’d given up on life, he’s fallen madly in love with the refreshingly naive daughter of his neighbor, dainty and charming Dahlia Balfour. Desperate to win her attention, Kirk calls in a favor from the Duchess of Roxburghe and asks that she transform him into a fashionable suitor for Dahlia’s hand. But what’s easy to change on the outside, isn’t as easy to change on the inside…
Dahlia’s always dreamed of a fairytale romance. Although Viscount Kirk is only seven years her senior, because of his cantankerous ways and lack of social graces she thinks of him as her “older neighbor,” and is blissfully unaware that he sees her as anything other than an acquaintance. She is shocked to see him at the duchess’s grand house party, trying to fit with the very societal rules he so frequently mocks. Surprised by his attention, irritated at his bald honesty, and intrigued that he finds her worth the effort, Dahlia regards Kirk as the opposite of Prince Charming. Without the pretty words and grand gestures she yearns for, can true love find its way into her unwilling heart?