Political tension and unequal power give Meredith Duran’s historical romances a darker edge than light drawing-room courtship. The Duke of Shadows begins around the upheaval of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 before returning its protagonists to Victorian England, making colonial conflict and personal survival inseparable from the romance. Bound by Your Touch pairs a scholar’s daughter with a disreputable aristocrat, while Fool Me Twice centres on a woman who enters a duke’s household under false pretences to protect herself from a dangerous secret. Duran’s novels are darker and more psychologically intense than light drawing-room romance, with betrayal, class and political experience often shaping the couple’s behaviour. Her work fits Victorian romance, historical romantic suspense and emotionally complex historical fiction alongside Sherry Thomas and Joanna Bourne. Read more Less
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