DescriptionA stunning debut for author Evie Dunmore and her Oxford Rebels in which a fiercely independent vicars daughter takes on a powerful duke in a love story that threatens to upend the British social order. England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford. In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising womens suffrage movement. Her charge: recruit men of influence to champion their cause. Her target: Sebastian Devereux, the cold and calculating Duke of Montgomery who steers Britains politics at the Queens command. Her challenge: not to give in to the powerful attraction she cant deny for the man who opposes everything she stands for. Sebastian is appalled to find a suffragist squad has infiltrated his ducal home, but the real threat is his impossible feelings for green-eyed beauty Annabelle. He is looking for a wife of equal standing to secure the legacy he has worked so hard to rebuild, not an outspoken commoner who could never be his duchess. But he wouldnt be the greatest strategist of the Kingdom if he couldnt claim this alluring bluestocking without the promise of a ring...or could he? Locked in a battle with rising passion and a will matching her own, Annabelle will learn just what it takes to topple a duke....AnnotationA stunning debut for author Dunmore and her Oxford Rebels in which a fiercely independent vicars daughter takes on a powerful duke in a love story that threatens to upend the British social order.About the AuthorDebut author Evie Dunmore wrote Bringing Down The Duke inspired by the magical scenery of Oxford and her passion for romance, women pioneers, and all things Victorian. In her civilian life, she is a consultant with a M.Sc. in Diplomacy from Oxford. She is a member of the British Romantic Novelists Association (RNA). Evie lives in Berlin and pours her fascination with 19th century Britain into her writing.