When the two meet, they have little in common. While Gabby is thrilled by the idea of marrying such a handsome individual, Peter has agreed to the marriage only under duress. Gabrielle Jerningham, Gabby for short, is a guileless beauty with little fashion sense, sent from India by her missionary father to marry Peter Dewland, Viscount Dewland’s second son. The main characters are quirky and well thought out and hold the readers’ interest to the very last page. The intricate web that a now-wiser Charlotte weaves to exact her due ensures justice for some and great merriment for all.Taking the Regency historical to fresh new places, with artful smoothness and irrepressible humor, Eloisa James delivers a winsome tale of first love and life's unexpected surprises.From the Hardcover edition.This is the final volume of James’s Regency trilogy (Potent Pleasures, Midnight Pleasures) and it is a pleasure to read. But she certainly remembers him she has since learned not only his identity, but also a titillating piece of gossip about him that is sure to set society abuzz. Pushing propriety aside, one evening she sneaks out with a friend to attend a masked ball, and there meets a devastatingly handsome stranger who relieves her-not against her wishes-of her virtue, then vanishes.Years later, when they meet again, the rogue does not remember Charlotte. With an uncanny wit and an eye for the whimsical, she unravels a complex-and often hilarious-chain of events inadvertently set in motion by a young woman's first taste of forbidden pleasure.About to make her debut in London society, Charlotte Calverstill, beneath the lavish gowns and manners of a well-brought-up young lady, yearns for a taste of freedom.
Eloisa 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.
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