The widowed Lady Georgina Sorrell who has no plans to marry, everĪnd your hostess, Lady Carolyn Finchley, an irrepressible matchmaker who plans to find the lady most likely…Įloisa James breathes new life into one of the most popular fiction genres with her highly original debut novel Potent Pleasures, a charming, vividly peopled Regency romance.The terribly eligible new Earl of Charters.The impossibly beautiful and painfully shy Miss Gwendolyn Passmore.The dashing war hero Captain Neill Oakes.The always outspoken Miss Katherine Peyton.The horse-mad but irresistibly handsome Earl of Briarly.Hugh will have time to woo whichever lady he most desires… Hugh Dunne, the Earl of Briarly, needs a wife, so his sister hands him a list of delectable damsels and promises to invite them- and a few other gentlemen-to her country house for what is sure to be the event of the season. Three of the brightest stars of historical romance invite you to a party at the country home of the Honorable Marquess of Finchley The Lady Most Likely… (With: Julia Quinn,Connie Brockway)

Yet in forcing Simeon into a delicious surrender, will Isidore risk not only her dignity but her heart? After all, a consummated marriage cannot be annulled. She will do whatever it takes to capture Simeon’s heart, even if it means sacrificing her virtue. But Isidore will not give up her claim to the title or him without a fight. When she finally lures Simeon Jermyn back to London, his dark handsomeness puts Isidore’s worst fears to rest until disaster strikes.įorsaking his adventuresome past, Simeon has returned to London ready to embrace the life of a proper duke, only to find that his supposed wife is too ravishing, too headstrong, and too sensual to be the docile duchess he has in mind. She’s determined to accept him, no matter how unattractive the duke turns out to be. Married by proxy as a child, Lady Isidore has spent years fending off lecherous men in every European court while waiting to meet her husband. The Duchess of Cosway yearns for a man she has never met…

A duke of her own by eloisa james