Although Quinn freely admits to being a convicted murderer, neither he nor his clean cell gives off an air of danger, so Jane consents to the guard’s plan of her waiting for her father with Quinn rather than in the hall. She is Miss Jane Winston, a kind young lady who accompanied her minister father to the prison, but who had no desire to listen to him sermonize. As he prepares to wait out his last week on earth from his quiet cell (the nicest quarters a bribe can get you in Newgate), one of the prison guards brings in a woman to visit him. The story begins with Quinn Wentworth, one of London’s most famously wealthy bankers, biding his time in Newgate prison before his execution. When I picked up My One and Only Duke one morning, I gambled that I’d be able to put it down when necessary… and I lost that bet, since the book sucked me in from the start.
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