Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, and Connie Brockway, Avon, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-124782-8
This charming, lighthearted Regency, written in three parts by bestsellers Quinn (Ten Things I Love About You), James (A Kiss at Midnight), and Brockway (The Golden Season), delivers wit and heart with every page. Lady Carolyn Finchley hosts a house
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Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, and Connie Brockway. Avon, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-210738-1
Three popular grand dames of historical romance team up again (after The Lady Most Likely...) to create a charming three-part farce set in 1819 Scotland. Laird Taran Ferguson goes to great drunken lengths to kidnap four young women—and John...
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Eloisa James, Author Delacorte Press $19.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-33361-0
The daughter of the marquis of Brandenburg, Lady Sophie York is a beguiling and flirtatious innocent. One of the most marriageable young women in Regency London, she's also secretly brainy. Yet she finds herself in love with a man she is dead set...
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Eloisa James, Author Delacorte Press $21.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-33360-3
Is he or isn't he? That's the question on London society's collective mind in this slow-starting but ultimately satisfying Regency romance. Alexander Foakes, earl of Sheffield and Downes, allowed his Italian wife, Maria, to divorce him on grounds...
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Eloisa James. Avon, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-202128-1
James’s Regency-era rendition of “The Princess and the Pea” hits the trifecta of sizzling romance, engaging characters, and an enthralling, quick-moving story. Curvy, brash Olivia and slim, proper Georgiana are twins, raised by their social-climbing
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Eloisa James. Random, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6956-9
Two American academics with growing kids shucked life in the New Jersey suburbs for a year in Paris and savored the splendors of style and gourmandise, as James, the nom de plume of romance author Mary Bly, recounts in this effervescent diary. Bly,...
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Eloisa James. Avon, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-202173-1
James’s fourth fairy tale–inspired Regency romance (after The Duke Is Mine) puts an enchanting twist on Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Ugly Duckling.” James Ryburn, earl of Islay, is forced by his father, the duke of Ashbrook, to marry his best...
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Eloisa James, Avon, $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-162684-5
Well-known for tales of dukes and duchesses, James (A Duke of Her Own) upgrades to the handsome prince in this delectable Regency reimagining of the Cinderella story. Miss Katherine Daltry, on the shelf at 23, manages the household of her ungrateful
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Eloisa James. Avon, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-222389-0
James’s seventh Desperate Duchesses historical (after A Duke of Her Own) is her most enticing work to date, replete with sizzling romance and riveting characters. Lady Xenobia India St. Clair has shocked the high society of 1799 London by scorning...
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Eloisa James. Avon, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-238943-5
James (Four Nights with the Duke) enlivens a series of classic romance clichés with congenial characters and historical tidbits in this light Regency. In 1803, American heiress Merry has already broken two engagements. She is relieved by a proposal...
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Eloisa James. Avon, $7.99 mass market (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-238945-9
James continues her long-running and multigenerational Desperate Duchesses series (Four Nights with the Duke) with an enjoyable romance set in early 18th-century London. Eugenia Snow, a viscount’s widow, is free to enjoy herself amid London’s social
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Eloisa James. Avon, $7.99 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-238947-3
Historical romance doyenne James kicks off a Georgian series with an entertaining and intellectual story in which a famous author and explorer falls for a woman who shuns the spotlight. After a long absence exploring the globe, Lord Alaric Wilde...
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Eloisa James. Avon, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-269246-7
James’s third Wildes of Lindow Castle Regency (after Wilde in Love) is a charming, if uneven, tale of second chances. Diana Belgrave fled her own engagement party, jilting Lord Roland Northbridge “North” Wilde. Two years later, North returns home,...
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Eloisa James, Author . Delacorte $21.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-33362-7
In keeping with the previous installments of James's regency trilogy (Potent Pleasures; Midnight Pleasures), this final volume offers dual romances, charismatic characters and a healthy dose of humor. Gabrielle Jerningham, aptly nicknamed "Ga
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Eloisa James, Author . Avon $7.99 (373p) ISBN 978-0-06-124557-2
Harriet, the young widowed duchess of Berrow, longs to escape the elaborate wigs and skirts of Georgian society and have a true adventure. Opportunity arises when friend Isidore wants to lure her long-absent husband back from his Far East...
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Eloisa James, Author . Avon $7.99 (388p) ISBN 978-0-06-124554-1
Entertaining and exciting throughout, there's enough seduction, laughter and surprises in the second Desperate Duchesses installment to satisfy even the most demanding fans of historical fiction. In the spring of 1783, four years after they...
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Eloisa James, Author . Avon $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-078193-4
If Shakespeare had written an 18th-century romantic comedy, it might look something like this novel. In her latest, veteran James offers a larger-than-life portrait of Georgian England, complete with oversexed aristocrats, posturing courtesans and a
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Eloisa James, Author . Avon $6.99 (406p) ISBN 978-0-06-078192-7
In the final installment in her Four Sisters series (after Taming of the Duke
), James tells the story of Josie, the only Essex sister yet unmarried. Nicknamed the "Scottish Sausage" by a rejected suitor, Josie believes that no man will ever
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Eloisa James, Author . Avon $6.99 (394p) ISBN 978-0-06-078158-3
James's delightful third installment in her successful Four Sisters Regency series (Much Ado About You
; Kiss Me, Annabel
) revolves around Imogen Maitland, the mischievous sister of Kiss Me, Annabel
's titular heroine. Now a widow...
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Eloisa James, Author . Avon $6.99 (386p) ISBN 978-0-06-073210-3
As smooth, full-bodied and intoxicating as a fine wine, this Regency romance, the second in a series following the impoverished Essex sisters (after Much Ado About You
) is vintage James. Every exchange showcases the author's subtle wit, and not
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Eloisa James, Author . Avon $6.99 (391p) ISBN 978-0-06-073206-6
Reviewers have compared James's Regency-era romances (Your Wicked Ways
, etc.) to Sex and the City
, but her effervescent voice is somewhat subdued in this first installment of her new series, focusing on four squabbling sisters. After their...
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Eloisa James, Author . Avon $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-056078-2
Rounding out her quartet of Regency-era romances (A Wild Pursuit,
etc.), James delivers the story of Helene, long estranged from her husband, Rees, who pens comic operas and thrives on scandal. The very proper Helene enjoys the solicitude of the...
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Eloisa James, Author . Avon $6.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-050812-8
After reading James's newest offering (following Fool for Love
), some might be tempted to call her "the historical Jennifer Crusie." In this book, as in her previous ones, her flawed, outrageous and sometimes willfully blindered...
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Eloisa James, Author . Avon $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-050811-1
Eschewing the formulas and character types found in many romances, this pert Regency pairs a dandified urbanite and a disabled heiress, which makes for some frank, funny exchanges. No one could accuse the lace-loving Simon Darby of being an alpha...
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Eloisa James, Author . Avon $6.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-050810-4
Fresh and witty, this high-spirited Regency-era romance gives a tried-and-true formula a merry spin. Cam Serrard, the duke of Girton, leapt out of a window and ran off to Greece immediately after being forced into wedding 11-year-old Gina. Instead...
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Eloisa James, Author, Julia London, Author, Rebecca Hagan Lee, Author . Jove $6.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-515-13930-3
Gossip figures prominently in three of the four Regency-era novellas included in this collection, which is, unfortunately, as shallow as a Hollywood rumor rag. James incorporates the theme she used most successfully in "A Proper Englishwoman,"
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Victoria Alexander, Author, Eloisa James, Author, Liz Carlyle, Author . Avon $6.99 (371p) ISBN 978-0-06-054026-5
Four of the brightest historical romance authors writing today serve up stories of lovers reunited in this somewhat patchy collection of Regencies. As the title suggests, all four of the novellas focus on couples who have broken up for some reason...
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Eloisa James. Avon, $26.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-291295-4
James’s fourth visit to the Wildes of Lindow Castle (after Born to be Wilde) struggles to incorporate mental illness, social stigma, and trauma into a fluffy Regency romance. Lady Boadicea “Betsy” Wilde’s reputation is tainted through no fault of...
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Eloisa James. Avon, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-287806-9
James delivers all the banter and sizzle her fans expect in the nuanced fifth Wildes of Lindow Castle Georgian romance (after Say No to the Duke). Viola Astley, stepdaughter to Hugo Wilde, Duke of Lindow, is painfully shy in company due partly to...
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Eloisa James. Avon, $9.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-313957-2
Scandalous family secrets aren’t enough to animate the flimsy second Would-be Wallflowers Regency romance from bestseller James (after How to Be a Wallflower). French Lady Yasmin Régnier, 25, is often the subject of gossip: her mother was Napoleon’s
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Eloisa James. Avon, $9.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-313962-6
Bestseller James’s fun third Would-Be Wallflowers historical romance (after The Reluctant Countess) sets itself apart in the depth of its interpersonal complexities. Orphaned Lady Stella Corsham is decidedly not one of the incomparable beauties of...
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Eloisa James. Avon, $9.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-334741-0
Bestseller James (the Would-Be Wallflowers series) introduces her Accidental Brides series with this middling Regency romance. Victoria “Torie” Sutton, a dyslexic artist, suspects that her older sister Leonora and Leonora’s handsome fiancé, Viscount
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Eloisa James. Avon, $9.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-334746-5
A lady escaping Georgian London discovers love with a Scottish laird in bestseller James’s scintillating second Accidental Brides romance (after Viscount in Love). After Clara Vetry publicly rejects Prince George’s handsy advances, her marriage...
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Eloisa James et al. Avon, $9.99 mass market (480p) ISBN 978-0-06-313969-5
Lost loves and first loves come together in this delightfully festive quartet of Regency romances, all brimming with holiday spice and mistletoe mischief. Set against the Duke of Greystoke’s 1815 Christmastide Revelry, each story features strong,...
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