Knits, Reads and Reviews: Book Review: Duchess

Duchess: Book Three in the Daughters of Fortune series.

When her country needs her, will she have the courage to surrender her glittering world and her one true love?

The golden age of Hollywood is in the business of creating stars. Rosie Worth, now starlet Roxy Price, has found everything she's wanted in the glamour of the silver screen. With adoring fans and a studio-mogul husband, she's finally silenced the voices-and grief-of the past. Her future shines bright...until the fated Black Friday when it all comes crashing down. When Roxy loses everything, she finds herself disgraced and penniless. Her only hope is to join forces with Belgian duke Rolfe Van Horne, a longtime film investor. But Rolfe is not who he seems, and he has other plans for Roxy and her movies-plans to support a growing unrest in Europe, plans that could break her heart and endanger her life. Find out more about the series by clicking on these links. Heiress. Baroness.

Meet Susan: Susan May Warren is the bestselling, RITA Award-winning author of more than forty novels whose compelling plots and unforgettable characters have won acclaim with readers and reviewers alike. She served with her husband and four children as a missionary in Russia for eight years before she and her family returned home to the States. She now writes full-time as her husband runs a lodge on Lake Superior in northern Minnesota, where many of her books are set. She and her family enjoy hiking, canoeing, and being involved in their local church. Several of her critically acclaimed novels have been ECPA and CBA bestsellers, were chosen as Top Picks by Romantic Times, and have won the RWA's Inspirational Reader's Choice contest and the American Christian Fiction Writers Book of the Year award. Five of her books have been Christy Award finalists. In addition to her writing, Susan loves to teach and speak at women's events about God's amazing grace in our lives. She also runs a writing community for authors. Visit MyBookTherapy.com to learn more. For exciting updates on her new releases, previous books, and more, visit her website at www.susanmaywarren.com

MY THOUGHTS
Duchess is the third book in the daughter's of fortune series and this is Rosie's story. I have read each of the 3 books in the series, and while it's fun to follow the characters, each book is definitely a stand-alone read.

Rosie's story is full of a lot of pain, she has given up quite a bit in life and has to deal with the ghosts of her past, which of course cause her quite a bit of pain, and have helped mold the course of her life.

Rosie does not want to love, but yet cannot help herself.

This story speaks of endurance as Rosie continually picks herself up, keeps a smile on her face, and does as she sets out to do. But don't be fooled, her heart is not as closed as she may like, and there is a twist to this story that will bring back the horrors of Nazi Germany.

A very good read, and I cannot wait for the next in this series.

*I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for review from Litfuse Publicity

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