Book description
It is Spring 1783 ...Jemma, Duchess of Beaumont, has just returned from
Paris and is planning to shock all of London High Society - not to
mention horrify her husband - with scandalous soirees and a debauched
Grand Ball. But irritating her husband comes naturally, and she needs a
challenge. When her country cousin Lady Roberta St. Giles asks for help
seducing the Duke of Villiers into marriage, Jemma jumps at the chance.
She transforms Roberta into the most delicious and desirable woman in
town. Then she lures Villiers to the house, ostensibly to play chess.
But the plan backfires. Villiers responds enthusiastically to Jemma's
challenge and, ignoring Roberta or indeed Jemma's husband, offers her a
match - the third game of which is to be played blindfolded. And in bed.
After graduating from Harvard University, Eloisa got an M. Phil. from
Oxford University, a Ph. D. from Yale and eventually became a
Shakespeare professor. Currently she is the Director of Creative Writing
in the English Department at Fordham University in New York City. She
lives and writes in New Jersey with her husband, a Dante scholar and
Italian knight, and their two children.
