title: Blame It on the Duke: The Disgraceful Dukes
author:  Lenora Bell 
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  Blame It on Bath
  
  The Truth About the Duke
  
  Caroline Linden
  
  
  Dedication
  
  To Karen and Larry,
  
  and many more decades of happily-ever-after
  
  Chapter 1
  
  Gerard de Lacey did not remember his mother.
  
  His older brothers did. Edward had been eight, and Charlie eleven, when she
  died. He’d been only five, too young to have fixed memories. Sometimes his
  brothers would mention something about her—the songs she sang to them, the way
  she made their father laugh, her passion for the gardens—that made Gerard wild
  with envy they still had some piece of her, and he had almost nothing. Nothing
  bright and lovely, at any rate. Nothing that was purely his.
  
  He’d seen the portraits of her, of course; the portrait painted when she was a
  young woman newly engaged to the Duke of Durham, the formal portraits of her
  and his father after their marriage, the family portraits of her with her
  sons. He knew she’d been pretty and slim, dark-haired and blue-eyed; but that
  didn’t help. In one portrai