How long does it take to read The Reluctant Duke?
The Reluctant Duke by Carole Mortimer takes about 3 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of The Notorious St. Claires (Modern)
Previous: Jordan St Claire: Dark and Dangerous Next: Taming the last St. Claire
About 3 hours 31 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2011. 192 pages, about 52,800 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Hired to distract, driven to distraction… Lucan St Claire refuses to take the cursed title of fifteenth Duke of Stourbridge – he wants nothing to do with his heritage, including a magnificent stately home in Gloucestershire. So when he’s forced to return to his family’s seat he takes beautiful new personal assistant Lexie Hamilton with him, for some much-needed distraction
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Administrative assistants, fiction, Businessmen, fiction, Aristocracy (Social class), fiction, Fiction, romance, erotica