Very well written and enjoyable. Loved the characters and can’t wait to see the next book in the series!

I liked this book much more than I did the first book in this series. Faith and Nicholas are both thoughtful characters who are thrown together into a situation with heightened emotions that really intensified their connection. Their worry and care for each other while they are still getting to really know each other made them a couple that you could believe in. The action in this book was exciting and enjoyable up to a point. There were at least two occasions where I thought the story was ready to wrap up but it continued on and on.

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I liked this book better than the first book in the series. I loved how Faith was so brave and resourceful. I liked Nick as a leading man. The action in this book was more than usual for a romance novel, but it was very fun.

This one fell a bit short for me. Love the characters, but their romance wasn’t very believable. I just didn’t feel the connection especially after what they went through for 6 days. It wasn’t very realistic to me. Faith and Nick on their own are fantastic and they’re not bad together...I just needed more. The entire story was a conflict and there really wasn’t time when they were just together under normal circumstances. Still looking forward to Mercy and Wesley!

Nicholas Ellsworth, Duke of Breckenridge, didn't realize that his engagement to Lady Faith would also include the three other ladies known as the Wallflowers of West Kane. Angry because the ladies investigated his background
(spying), he wants to call off the engagement. Nick gives Faith the right to do it first, but she's undecided. With help she arranges for a quiet week for just the two of then to get to know each other. Their week is interrupted when a French spy decides to take his revenge against Nick. Even though this book includes violence, I enjoyed reading the antics of these four ladies getting into and out of trouble.
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Good historical romance. It did not particularly pull me in or catch my eye, but I believe that was due to me not the book itself. Well written with good plot.

I enjoyed this book but it relied a bit on knowing the back story. I had read the previous book in the series a while ago and couldn't quite remember what the big deal about the spying was. But over all I found the story fun and the characters interesting.

This is a very fun book. For a Regency Romance, there is a lot of intrigue and adventure. I love the Wallflowers and their independent, feminist spirits. Definately recommended to Regency fans.

This was an intriguing story. Its a bit of a thriller and romance in a histrorical novel. I have never read this author before but I really enjoyed this story about two very different people who are betrothed to each other. At times I felt like I missed some things not having read the first book so I suggest you start with the first book and I would say this story does not stand alone.

Faith is engaged to Nick but Nick feels she invaded his privacy by sping on him with her friends and so he no longer wants to marry. Meanwhile Nick is spy and some of his enemies are after him.

I enjoyed the story and the writing was done very well. I didn't adore Nick but I loved Faith and her friends,

A great sequel in the Wallflowers of West Lane series. This novel focuses Faith and Nick, who are engaged but in poor terms. Faith is determined to discern what type of man her potential husband is, but Nick would like to keep his secrets his own, but everything comes to a head when Nick's past shows up in England looking for revenge.

I really enjoyed the romance in this book, which was full of action. It was a nice, quick read.

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Lady Faith Landon is engaged to Nicholas Ellsworth, Duke of Breckenridge. We first met these two in The Earl Not Taken as supporting characters and this book is their story where they take front and center. Lady Faiths mother set up the engagement with Nicholas without her knowledge and wanted to know more about him before actually going through with it. She simply wanted to know more about him, his character but the Duke has secrets and a past he has trouble sharing. After the high jinks in the last book the Duke isn’t sure what he feels about Faith anymore or wether they should be married and has given Faith an out without destroying any future marriage prospects.

In Misleading a Duke, Lady Faith has tricked Nicholas into coming out to a friends country house where she is hoping to explain her actions and learn more about him and his secrets. They were just starting to get to know one another when Nicholas past catches up with him and puts both Faith and himself in peril and they must work together and trust each other if they are to survive.

This book was an easy and fun read. The writing style felt different and a little more dull than the first book in the series. I did enjoy it once I got into it a bit further into the story but it did take a little to get there. It felt forced in some areas but the world building is lovely. The characters are likable and the general storyline is fun and intriguing.

Will I reread this book? Probably not. Will I read the next book in the series? More than likely. I feel like I should see these Wallflowers and their (mis)adventures though to the end.

Thank you to Net Galley for providing me with an e copy of this book to review. Misleading the Duke, the second book in the Wallflower series was an enjoyable read but not quite what I had expected. It veered away from a more typical historical romance. Maybe more of a thriller or even mystery? Ms Fenichel did a nice job of introducing the cast of characters originally seen in book one. The plot was believable, the interaction between the main characters was fine but I was put off by the amount of violence in the book. It just seemed too much for what appeared, by the book's cover and description, to be a romance novel. I will read the next book in the series to see what happens to our lovers in the future.

Thank you netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
This is a decent historical romance. Nick and Faith are set to wed but Nick is ready to withdraw his offer after he finds out Faith and her friends attempted to investigate him. While I understand the intrusion of privacy I don't understand why he would hold that against her considering they barely know each other and she should know who's she's really marrying. Of course he's a spy and full of secrets. Needless to say I was not too fond of Nick who greatly desires her but insists on not trusting her.

Of course all secrets eventually come to light and together they must go undercover to stay out of danger and solve a crime.
Overall nothing spectacular but entertaining.

I love the characters and know them from the first book but this one just lacked the spark. The first sex scene was a bit cringy to me. It was definitely not the time to be sexually active especially for a virgin and the state Nick was in. Story line was good but seemed to lag a bit in places. We didn't see as much as the Wallflowers as in the first book and Sophia and Nick weren't together too much either. I will still pick up this series with hopes that then next one gets the spark back.

Faith has been pledged by her family to marry Nick, a man she has never met, but with the sad experience of her close friend’s abusive marriage, she is reluctant to proceed. She and her friends devise a plan to permit Faith to learn her intended’s true character, but Nick, a former spy, is loath to reveal his background. Although the underlying situation is a very serious one, the narrative has its lighter moments and the characters are fully realized and engaging. This is the second book in the Wallflowers of West Lane series, following The Earl Not Taken, and while it is not essential that the books be read in order, it is definitely preferable for the fullest enjoyment of this terrific series.

Love, Love, LOVE! <3

I absolutely LOVED this book. Misleading A Duke is the second book in The Wallflowers of West Lane series, following the relationship between Faith and Nick, while the first book followed the relationship between Poppy and Rhys. I did not think it was possible for me to love the second book in this series as much as the first, but A.S. Fenichel managed to make me fall in love with her characters all over again.

I'll admit that in the first book, I didn't love Faith's character. She seemed a little stuck up and extremely stubborn with the way she acted towards Nick from their very first interaction. However, getting a look into her thoughts and mind in this book made me fall in love with her strength and loyalty to the ones she loves.

This book was a great mix of romance, mystery and humor, with some thrilling spy drama sprinkled in that had me unable to put the book down. oh and the steamy scenes had me fanning myself and wishing for a duke of my own. ;)

I will definitely be recommending this book to my friends and patrons at the library. I can't wait for the next book in this series to see whats in store for the rest of the Wallflowers of West Lane!

A-ma-zing!
A.S. Fenichel's Misleading A Duke had me so enraptured, I could not stop reading! From the very first page right on to the end. It's characters are very realistic and relatable.

The Wallflowers were completely wonderful. With their different characters and attributes, they just make you fall in love with them. The female perspective of anyone living at this time is wonderful and they are feminist too.

I love how Faith showed strength of character when she went through the first hostage situation by Joseph and his men. She was courageous and had faith in her lover.

The twists in the novel were especially intriguing. One where Faith kept resorting to trick to get Nick's attention, the other when the groundskeeper saved the day, yet another when Joseph ran off with his books at the end of the novel.

It contains the best details a good romance book should have; suspense, romance, strength of character and intrigue.

All in all, it was a beautiful book and I would definitely recommend.

This is the second book in the Wallflowers of West Lane and I'm really enjoying this series! The author jumped almost directly into a pretty dramatic series of events that I think would have felt jarring if I hadn't recently read the first book (and remembered where the characters, introduced in that novel, were in their story arc). That being said, one of my favorite parts of this series is the connections between the Wallflowers and how well the author brings them to life. Very much looking forward to Mercy's story!

I really enjoyed the prior book of this series, but the plot of this one just seemed desperate. The heroine is trying to make amends to the hero who she insulted by spying on him to prove what he had been doing. She tries to explain it that she just wanted to get to know the duke better, because they were somehow betrothed, but it isn't quite clear. The hero refuses to marry her because she doesn't trust him and had spied on him and is waiting for her to call off the wedding. This is an little confusing, because for this time period, arranged marriages are a normal instance. No one meets their spouse or knows them for long before getting married and having children. So, the heroine decides to talk to a mutual friend who kind of kidnaps the hero and they are stuck together and then the intrigue gets spotty because they have servants, but 3 of the heros spy enemies try to beat him to death and she has to rescue him. It is like I said, the story just seems a little desperate. It is a well written story and a smooth read for the most part. It is just that some if the actions taken are to make a story that doesn't make sense. I give this book a 4.5 stars and advise not to look at the logic behind the story. Just go long with the book.

As previously stated in my review of the first book in the Wallflowers of West Lane series: I want to be friends with these girls. This is one of few romances I've read that truly builds off the secondary plot from the previous book to become the main characters in the next book.

We meet Nicholas and Faith in the first book and honestly they are responsible for the characters in the first book getting together so for that we'll always be thankful. You won't be too lost if you don't read the first book, but you'll be missing out on some gorgeous details so I highly recommend you read that first.

In Misleading a Duke we see the intrigue and spycraft get kicked up a notch with a lot of drama and no small about of kidnapping and torture. Overall, Nick and Faith are both stubborn and to see them come together and realize how much they have in common and and rely on each other was such a nice difference from how we see Nick in the first book. Fenichel does a great job at making the characters of centuries ago exciting and relevant to today without making them seem ridiculous in the context of their time period.