Book description
A Regency historical from the New York Times bestselling author Eloisa
James, bound to delight Heyer fans.
If you kiss a man once…
When the dashing Earl of Ardmore tempts Miss Annabel Essex, the most
unattainable of the four beautiful Essex sisters, with the promise of a
kiss, she resists, just as she snubs his teasing offers of marriage. For
what would she get if she married him? Why, nothing but a faded Scottish
title and a hovel in the highlands.
But by some cruel twist of fate Annabel finds herself in a carriage
bound for Scotland (the place she abhors) with the penniless Ardmore -
and with all the world thinking they're man and wife! To make matters
worse Annabel becomes embroiled in a flirtatious game of words with the
Earl - in which the prize is a kiss…and the forfeit… A moment of
passionate madness with Ardmore and the choice is clear - marriage or disgrace.
Yet when she arrives at the Earl's Scottish Estate - contrary to what
she had been lead to believe - she finds the hovel to be a castle and
her Earl far from impoverished. And she learns - in the bridal
bedchamber and elsewhere - that there is more to marriage than just
kissing… Praise for Much Ado About You:
'Great fun and love the modern take on a classic Regency romance, with
all its nods and winks to Austen…a great achievement that matches
fast-paced romance with well-crafted social observation…bravo for
Eloisa!'FIONA WALKER
'Great fun! I couldn't put it down. Move over Georgette Heyer!' DAISY WAUGH
'Hurrah! Romance is back in fashion. No grisly body count, no lurking
serial killer. The only four-letter word is love. Choc-full of romantic
heroes that would give Darcy a run for his money. Sheer joy from
beginning to end.' Carole Matthews
'In the first in a new series featuring the wonderfully amusing Essex
sisters, New York Times best-selling James' gift for superb
characterization and elegantly sensual, delightfully witty prose creates
a thoroughly romantic treat.' Booklist
'A smash hit in the US, 'Much Ado About You' should be every bit as
successful here.'Daily Mirror
'Regency romance at its best.'Bookstore Eloisa James is a professor
of English literature, specializing in Shakespeare. She teaches at
Fordham University in New York City, and lives in New Jersey. Oxford
University Press published her academic book in 2000. Eloisa's books
have been translated into Dutch, Russian, German, Polish, French and
Spanish. She is the daughter of poet Robert Bly (winner of the American
Book Award for Poetry) and short story author Carol Bly. Eloisa's
godfather was the poet James Wright, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for
his Collected Poems. Among those poems - and one of Wright's most
beloved - is a poem written for his goddaughter, Mary Bly (aka Eloisa
James).
