The resulting controversy led to the mass resignation of half of the RWA board of directors, the resignation of the RWA executive director, and the cancellation of the 2020 RITA Award program. The board reinstated her days later, noting irregularities with the process. In late 2019, the RWA board voted to suspend Milan for calling another author's book racist. Milan served on the board of directors of the Romance Writers of America (RWA) for four years, spearheading efforts to make the organization more diverse and inclusive. Kozinski soon resigned his lifetime appointment, and Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts ordered a review of how the federal judiciary handled sexual harassment reports. As the Me Too movement gained steam, Bond alleged that Kozinski had sexually harassed her. Prior to her writing career, Bond was a law clerk for Sandra Day O'Connor of the United States Supreme Court and for Judge Alex Kozinski. After releasing her first few books under a traditional publishing contract, Milan has self-published more recent works.

University of California, Berkeley ( MS)Ĭourtney Milan, a pseudonym for Heidi Bond, is a bestselling American author of historical and contemporary romance novels.

While this one wasn’t my favorite of her recent works it is still a wonderfully written work on valuing oneself and creating a space for yourself in the world. Milan is an author on a mission to stop the whitewashing of history, and this book is also obviously a love letter to what makes her happy, and what her own heritage is. In broad strokes Milan is continuing to endeavor to pursue her feminist romance mission but adding even more to the expected tropes of historic romances set in England. He has reasons for his multi-year absence, and having never given Chloe or his other friends his true name, and he is a man on a mission:all he has to do is convince Chloe to make room for a mischievous trickster in her life, then disclose that in all the years they’ve known each other, he’s failed to mention his real name, his title… and the minor fact that he owns her entire village. Jeremy Wentworth, going by his psuedonyms Jeremy Yu and Posh Jim, has returned to the tiny village he once visited with the hope of wooing Chloe. Except now he’s back, in time for the annual Wedgeford Trials.

Three years ago, she asked her childhood sweetheart to be serious and she hasn’t seen him since. She has plans for her life which she is going to manifest through the use of lists and no time for nonsense. The Duke Who Didn’t tells the story of Chloe Fong.

Martin’s Incomparable Adventure, The Governess Affair) but when Milan surprise published this book I added to my digital bookshelf with a quickness. I’ve read a few of her novellas ( Her Every Wish, Mrs. It has been a few years since I read a novel length Courtney Milan work.

The Duke Who Didn't by Courtney Milan