Regarding the Duke by Grace Callaway

An Eliza Review
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Regarding the Duke by @GraceCallawayBooks
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Ratings (out of 5)
Chemistry: 💥💥💥💥
Heat: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Intrigue: 🖤🖤🖤🖤
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Adam Garrity is a powerful, self-made man. Climbing from the stews to Mayfair, Adam created an empire. He needed a wife and he set his sights on Gabriella. Plagued by insecurity and ever the wallflower, Gabriella accepts Adam because of his power and grace - and because he’s the only one to offer. After eight years of marriage, they’ve settled into a comfortable, albeit distanced normal. But when treachery befalls Adam, the lovers will have to learn not only what they have been missing, but what they now refuse to live without, all while managing threats from Adam’s past. Will the dark shadows prevail? Or is love - real love - worth fighting for?
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I’m not going to go into any more plot for this review because Grace really throws us for a loop and I WILL NOT ruin it for you. In lieu of that, let’s establish a few things about why I’m a huge GC fan:
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🌸 GC is the queen of writing rags-to-riches heroes who are deliciously dominant without being bossy alphaholes.⠀
🌸 GC is the goddess of writing female heroines who are plucky and fight for what they want in the end, even if they are plagued by familiar insecurities on the road to that end.⠀
🌸 GC can write the effing hell out of regency sexual tension and then, when she’s decided that she’s tortured you enough, can write the hell out of the actual regency sex. (Can we say #RegencyRimming? Should that be a hashtag? I’m gonna make that a hashtag.)⠀
🌸 GC writes sex positive books about a time when sex positivity was not the norm. Insert all the slow claps.

Regarding the Duke is classic GC. Adam is so sexy, especially after his head injury when he becomes so much less controlled and buttoned up and so much more… Adam. (#HeadInjuryAdamIsMyNewBookBoyfriend) And Gabby? Bless your heart, girl, I see you. Gabby doesn’t know what’s missing from her life and marriage until it drops into her lap, literally. How true is that for most of us?
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If you like regency romance with a thin but dark thread of mystery, a dominant, tortured, but so damn sweet hero, and a leading lady who discovers who she is and what she wants, grab this one ASAP. I read it in two sittings and yelled at my husband when he tried to confiscate my Kindle at 2AM when I had 12% left in the book. Nevertheless, I persisted.


Kiss & Tell:⠀
Regarding the Duke has a bit of everything. Dirty talk, delicious kissing, hand play, oral, roleplay, p&v sex, some light anal play, and a whole lot of tension. The sex is explicit but elegant, a combination that blows my mind every time I read a GC novel. Sexy but refined and so damn good.