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The Taming of the Duke

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Overview

Imogen, Lady Maitland, has decided to dance on the wild side. After all, she's in the delicious position of being able to take a lover. A discreet male who knows just when to leave in the morning.

But Lady Maitland is still under the watchful eye of her former guardian, the wildly untamed Rafe, the Duke of Holbrook. He believes she is still in need of a "watchdog." She laughs at the idea that someone so insufferably lazy and devoted to drink can demand that she behave with propriety.

It's Rafe's long-lost brother, a man who looks precisely like the duke but with none of his degenerate edge, who interests Imogen. To Imogen, he's the shadow duke . . . the man who really should hold the title. But when Imogen agrees to accompany Gabe to a masquerade...whose masked eyes watch her with that intense look of desire? Who exactly is she dancing with? The duke or the shadow duke? Rafe . . . or Gabe?

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Author Information

Bio of Eloisa James

Eloisa James is the author of two previous Regency historicals: "Potent Pleasures" & "Midnight Pleasures". She lives in New Jersey.

Customer Reviews

  • 5 stars out of 5Rafe and Imogen...YES!

    Posted November 19, 2008 by Lena, Hawaii

    Whoa..............Rafe and Imogen.........Yes!
    I read this year and it was my favorite out of all the books in the essex sister's series, now it's not that the other books weren't great, because.... they were! It's just that i was waiting with much anticipation for this one and boy was it worth it! Rafe was still lovable and endearing in his own way and Imogen was as fiery and sharped tongued as ever, add on the return of other regular character's from previous books and a few new such as Rafe's "other brother"and you Put them together and boy what you get is a great story! Can't say enough about this one I loved it...LOVED IT!

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Imprint

HarperCollins

Filesize

742.47 KB

Number of Pages

400

eBook ISBN

9780061212802

Awards

  • RITA Award

Excerpt from: The Taming of the Duke by Eloisa James

August 1817
Ardmore Castle, Scotland

"I wish I were a queen," Miss Josephine Essex said to two of her elder sisters. "I would simply command an appropriate man to marry me by special license."

"What if he refused?" Imogen, sometimes known as Lady Maitland, asked.

"I'd remove his head from his body," Josie said with dignity.

"Given that men make slim use of their heads," Annabel, the Countess of Ardmore said, "you don't have to threaten decapitation; simply allow the fellow to believe that he made up his own mind about marriage." She was tucked in Imogen's bed and appeared little more than a tousle of curls peeking from under the bedcovers.

"That is precisely the kind of advice I need." Josie snapped open a small book and poised her quill. "I am making a study of the skills required to succeed in the marriage market and since you two are both married, you are my primary sources of information."

"I'm a widow," Imogen said. "I know nothing of the marriage market." She was sorting silk stockings and didn't even look up from the dressing table.

"One should be able to dance," Annabel noted. "You really must practice harder, Josie. You were stomping on Mayne's toes the other night."