Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore

Dunmore is my new find in historical romance. Her A League of Extraordinary Women series is, well, extraordinary. Julia Quinn, #1 New York Times bestselling author With her sterling debut, Evie Dunmore dives into a fresh new space in historical romance that hits all the right notes. Entertainment WeeklyA stunning debut for author Evie Dunmore and her Oxford suffragists in which a fiercely independent vicar's daughter takes on a powerful duke in a fiery love story that threatens to upend the British social order. England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford. In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising women's suffrage movement. Her charge- recruit men of influence to champion their cause. Her target- Sebastian Devereux, the cold and calculating Duke of Montgomery who steers Britain's politics at the Queen's command. Her challenge- not to give in to the powerful attraction she can't deny for the man who opposes everything she stands for. Sebastian is appalled to find a suffragist squad has infiltrated his ducal home, but the real threat is his impossible feelings for green-eyed beauty Annabelle. He is looking for a wife of equal standing to secure the legacy he has worked so hard to.