The Duchess Takes it All by Michelle McLean is a historical romance. The novel focuses on Tamsin Palmer who is the newly widowed Duchess of Clevesly. Her husband’s death has left her with enough money to live on, her cherished son, James, and a group of friends. The other gift it gave her was she is now able to control her own destiny. The Tonne is not particularly nice to her since she married into the title from a working class family. However, she has taken her artistic talent to making political cartoons to allow the Tonne to see how they are to the regular people, with mixed success.
All that comes to a screeching halt when the Count of Rauchberg, Christian August, shows up as the co-guardian appointed by her deceased husband. The man has some outdated ideas about what is proper for a widow and expects her to fall in line. Tamsin has no intention of falling in line and questions everything that the count tries to do. Certainly, causing no small amount of grief for both of them.
The book is an enemies to lovers trope with lots of longing looks and passionate kisses. The Duchess Takes it All by Michelle McLean is a good read.
