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Duke: Dark College Bully Romance (Bastards of Bainbridge Hall)

Leila James

Book 3 in the Bastards of Bainbridge Hall series · Reading order →

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Why we recommend it

A dark college bully romance where a bastard's cruelty hides a devotion neither will admit to. Explicit content, high heat, and unflinching about power turned obsession.

At a glance

Duke is a bully romance by Leila James. It rates 5/5 for spice and 5/5 for darkness, one of the darker reads in bully romance: of the 419 bully romance books we rate, 80% score lower for darkness and 82% lower for spice. Tropes: bully, morally grey MC and possessive-obsessive MC. It is darker than Leila James’s other books on Readark (average darkness 4.5/5). It runs to 532 pages. 1 content warning is listed below, hidden until you tap.

Book details

Pages
532
Published
July 2023

Duke spice level

Duke is rated 5/5 for spice on Readark’s scale: very explicit throughout, meaning frequent, graphic and often kink-forward. Its darkness rating is 5/5: extreme, meaning taboo-adjacent themes taken to the edge of the genre. How we rate

Duke content warnings

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  • Emotional Abuse / Gaslighting

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