11 Reasons Why Love Is Stupid by Locke Wilder
The Sterlings #1
MM Duke Romance
November 12, 2026
Cover Design: Lori Jackson Design
Photography: Michelle Lancaster
Model: Mitchell Wick
✔️Grumpy/Sunshine
✔️hidden identity
✔️Christmas romance
✔️only one bed
✔️opposites attract
✔️British Aristocracy x American
✔️closeted hero
✔️remote island fling
✔️forced Proximity
✔️hurt/comfort/healing
✔️praise kink
✔️explicit consent
Sky
I was a sucker for love. An even bigger sucker for men who promised forever.
Since I was a boy I’ve wanted two things: kissing books and true love. I’m a senior editor now but every prince turns into a toad. I’ve been cheated on, used, and my engagement crashed and burned on my birthday.
I’ve given up on love, not romance. I never wanted an eavesdropping influencer to ruin my career by posting my rant about how dukes are terrible love interests, overrated British accents, and love being stupid.
Now I’m in an airport covered in an entitled jerk’s coffee—of course he has a snooty English accent—halfway to my exile in the wilds of Canada where no one can hear me if I scream love is stupid.
Becks
As the future Duke of Canterbury, I should decide who I marry, but Father has given me a list of entirely unsuitable women from which I may choose. I need a wife, an heir, a spare.
I’m going to a cottage so isolated it requires a seaplane to reach. I’ll hide, enjoy the solitude, do a cold plunge, and come to terms with giving up men. It’s my duty—no, honor and privilege—to become the man society expects.
There’s one tiny problem.
The man who spilled coffee on my shoes?
He’s here.
In the only bed.
Naked.
And he is stunning.
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11 Reasons Why Love Is Stupid: An MM Romance by Locke Wilder
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Sky, a romantic book editor, expressed his opinion of Dukes in British Regency romance, all romance books, and just love in general and the whole world heard it. Hustled off in shame to a cold, isolated island in Canada to contemplate his life choices. Becks in line to be a Duke, gets a list of totally unsuitable women to marry. His father insistent he get married immediately before his lifestyle comes to light. He has been forced to hide his bisexuality because it’s not acceptable in a future Duke. He runs to a cold, isolated island in Canada to contemplate his life choices.
I really liked both characters. Sky so adamant romance is dead was one of the most romantic characters I’ve read. Becks knowing he will return home and do his “lordly” duty still allows himself to fall for the last man he will ever be with. Becks didn’t lose his perfectionism but his stiff upper lip definitely relaxed. I enjoyed them both letting their guards down and allowing each other too slide into each other’s hearts. The end was perfect.
I was halfway through the book when I realized all the romance tropes were being plowed through. The author must of had a ball fitting them in. And they all work
Can a perfectionist Brit and not thinking before he rants American have a happy ending. You betcha.
Killian and Charlie are next. Lucky us.
Review Copy requested and reviewed on behalf of OMGReads.
Locke Wilder writes swoony, addictive MM romances about falling hard, risking everything for epic love, and earning a guaranteed happily-ever-after. As MF Wilder, she writes spicy male/female happily ever afters. Her novels are known for emotional intensity, slow-burn tension that erupts, sharp banter, and chemistry that feels alive on the page. She delights in competent adults who aren’t sure about love, magnetic characters who love deeply, and fight like hell to earn their ending.
Her real life carries the same intensity. She has lived in Istanbul, trekked to Everest Base Camp, and swims in cold water on purpose. Her passions—international travel, candle making, kiln glass, obsessive fountain pen shopping—regularly slip into her writing, shaping the worlds her characters inhabit. Locke dreams of writing full time someday… if she ever grows up (unlikely).
Locke Wilder writes romance because love is the greatest adventure.
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