Swans Book Review

My American Duchess was so raw to read.  There were barely any sugar coatings and it got right down to the meat of the story.  I love this about Eloisa James, she gives you the barely talked about version of romance. The Duke of Trent wants to marry a respectable English woman that will live up to his standards of how a Duchess is supposed to act. He meets the perfect candidate for a wife at a party he very much did not want to attend.  She was a vision of beauty, standing my herself on the balcony.   He had the most interesting conversation he ever had with a woman and he knew then that he would have her, even if she had the misfortune of being an American. But faith seems to have forsaken him since the lady is already betrothed to none other than his twin brother.  Merry Pelford has already broken two engagements and it would be scandalous for her to break the third one. She chose her fiance for he seemed like a lovable man who would respect...

This is my second book of  +Eloisa James  and I now can confirm that she is an author  I would very much like to hear more from.  I loved this book, especially the heroine. Emilia Carrington, when she was a young girl, had the misfortune of learning that the boy she was in love with, was nothing more than an insensitive toad. Years later, after claiming that she would never marry him, even if he was the last man in England, she finds herself, asking him to marry her. Evander Brody cannot believe that this little scrap of a girl dared to propose marriage to him, a Duke.  After he refused her, she pulled out the big guns which, if exposed, would revoke his title. Vainly thinking that this is some pay back for what happened all these years ago, Vander tries to shock her enough to back out of this foolish idea. When that did not work, he thought he would deny her what she wants, and only allows her four nights a year to go to bed with him and only if sh...