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Zusatztext "Eloisa James is extraordinary. With her sensuous and elegant style! inventive plotting and warm! human characters! she makes every book a treasure. A novel by Eloisa is a delicious treat that shouldn't be missed. A wonderfully original voice in romance fiction!" Informationen zum Autor Eloisa James is a USA Today and New York Times bestselling author and professor of English literature, who lives with her family in New York, but can sometimes be found in Paris or Italy. She is the mother of two and, in a particularly delicious irony for a romance writer, is married to a genuine Italian knight. Klappentext Once upon a time... A duke fell in love Gowan Stoughton of Craigievar, Duke of Kinross, values order and self-control above all else. So when he meets a lady as serene as she is beautiful, he promptly asks for her hand in marriage. With a lady Edie?whose passionate temperament is the opposite of serene?had such a high fever at her own debut ball that she didn't notice anyone, not even the notoriously elusive Duke of Kinross. When her father accepts his offer... she panics. And when their marriage night isn't all it could be, she pretends. In a tower. But Edie's inability to hide her feelings makes pretending impossible, and when their marriage implodes, she retreats to a tower?locking Gowan out. Now Gowan faces his greatest challenge. Neither commands nor reason work with his spirited young bride. How can he convince her to give him the keys to the tower... When she already has the keys to his heart? Zusammenfassung Once upon a time… A duke fell in love Gowan Stoughton of Craigievar! Duke of Kinross! values order and self-control above all else. So when he meets a lady as serene as she is beautiful! he promptly asks for her hand in marriage. With a lady Edie—whose passionate temperament is the opposite of serene—had such a high fever at her own debut ball that she didn’t notice anyone! not even the notoriously elusive Duke of Kinross. When her father accepts his offer… she panics. And when their marriage night isn’t all it could be! she pretends. In a tower. But Edie’s inability to hide her feelings makes pretending impossible! and when their marriage implodes! she retreats to a tower—locking Gowan out. Now Gowan faces his greatest challenge. Neither commands nor reason work with his spirited young bride. How can he convince her to give him the keys to the tower… When she already has the keys to his heart? ...
