Growing up I loved gothic romances and mysteries. I'd lose myself for hours in a Victoria Holt or an Agatha Christie.
I loved the stories set in large, brooding castles and manor houses, where the floors creak with the weight of a million footsteps and the stone stairs are worn down by countless heavy steps. Ghosts and mysteries linger in rooms and corridors long ago boarded up and forgotten.
Always a romantic, I imagined falling in love with these centuries-old buildings, and falling in love within their drafty walls, too.
These contemporary romance books each open with a British duke at the end of his life, and follows the stories of their heirs as they take up the title, and all that entails. Get to know Manly and Hardly. More formally known as the Duke of Manly; and the Duke of Hardison. And get to know even better the next-in-line heirs to their titles.
Find out why readers love Gina Robinson's good guy heroes, the strong women they fall for, and their funny, witty, romantic stories.
Gina Robinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland but grew up in the Pacific Northwest and considers herself a native of Washington State. Since 2008, when her debut novel was published, her books have delighted readers and received positive reviews in Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Romantic Times Book Reviews.
As a voracious reader herself and fan of all types of romantic stories, she writes romance and women's fiction across a wide variety of subgenres—new adult, contemporary, historical, romantic suspense and romantic comedy.
READ MORERobinson knows how to balance a book with lighthearted romps and serious romance.
Laugh out loud funny.
