Reviewed by Heather C

TITLE: All In With The Duke
SERIES: Gambling on Love #1
AUTHOR: Ava March
PUBLISHER: Carina Press
LENGTH: 81,000 words
BLURB: London, 1822

Max Arrington, the Duke of Pelham, vows to never again let a handsome face blind him to a man’s true intentions. But ten months of celibacy and lonely nights drive him to a decadent brothel, where a beautiful young man arouses his illicit passions as never before.

Tristan Walsh has grown tired of being used for men’s pleasure. But his latest client is different: commanding yet generous, Max makes him feel cared for as well as wanted. Yet Tristan knows he’ll never have the choice to leave the brothel and submit only to Max.

So when Max invites him to be his guest at his country estate, Tristan eagerly agrees to his terms–days to do as he pleases while Max tends to the dukedom, and nights spent together in wicked play. But when the “business arrangement” begins to deepen into something more, Tristan must face the fact that he has no true place in Max’s life–or in Max’s guarded heart…

REVIEW:
First of all, I’m going to start by admitting that Ava March is a HUGE guilty pleasure of mine. When I saw that this book was around 81,000 words, you would not believe how excited I was since I’m pretty sure its the longest story she’s released.

In All In With The Duke, Maxwell Robert Michael Arrington, Viscount Shelburne, the Earl of Hertford, and the ninth Duke of Pelham has been deeply betrayed and blackmailed by a previous lover, threatening to reveal his preferences and kinks. After months of loneliness, his good friend Rawlings encourages Max to visit Rubicon’s Brothel, a high-end, discreet establishment. There he meets Tristan Walsh, a young man selling his body to pay off his gambling debts. There is an immediate attraction between Max and Tristan and neither man can get the other one out of his mind.

After an unexpected incident at the brothel, Max makes Tristan a delicious and beneficial offer he can’t refuse: Tristan agrees to move to Max’s country home and become his “kept man”…strictly a professional business arrangement and nothing more. Yeah right! While Max spends all the daylight hours running the dukedom and the nights with Tristan in his bed, Tristan quickly becomes bored with Max’s workaholic ways, even as he grows more attached to the real Max underneath all of the titles. Can Max and Tristan ever move past the original agreement of the Dom and his prostitute?

I really loved this story…it has all the classic kinkiness of every other Ava March story, but with this one we get the added length. It was long enough for me to actually feel the connection between Max and Tris, even when their miscommunications made me want to scream. However, I DID like their “sexual” miscommunications; I thought that made this story fresh and different from all those characters who have perfect sex every time. I don’t know how she does it, but for me, Ava’s smut keeps getting hotter and kinkier. Yeah, the story was a bit predictable and the premise was very similar to His Client, but who cares???!!! It was smutty deliciousness!

This is the first book of the Gambling on Love trilogy. I cheated and skimmed the blurbs of the future books and discovered that Morgan will get his story in book two, and Rawlings in the third. Yay!!

Recommended.

Heather rates it – 

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