A Gentleman Never Tells
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“She’s a lady!” her mother had retorted, in pure horror.
“Precisely,” Clement had said, bowed, and left.
Now Cecilia turned to her mother. “I’m not threatening to run away from home this time, Mama. I’ve done nothing more outrageous than commission new gowns.”
“I suppose we have no choice at this point,” her mother said, as tragically as any Cleopatra. “I might as well face the humiliation now, as wait for London.”
“It can’t be more humiliating than having a wallflower as a daughter,” Cecilia pointed out.
“Oh, how little you know of the world,” her mother said grimly.
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ELOISA JAMES is a New York Times bestselling author and professor of English literature who lives with her family in New York, but can sometimes be found in Paris or Italy. She is the mother of two and, in a particularly delicious irony for a romance writer, is married to a genuine Italian knight. Visit her at www.eloisajames.com.
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By Eloisa James
A GENTLEMAN NEVER TELLS (a novella)
MY AMERICAN DUCHESS
FOUR NIGHTS WITH THE DUKE
THREE WEEKS WITH LADY X
ONCE UPON A TOWER
AS YOU WISH
WITH THIS KISS (a novella in three parts)
SEDUCED BY A PIRATE (a novella)
THE UGLY DUCHESS
THE DUKE IS MINE
WINNING THE WALLFLOWER (a novella)
A FOOL AGAIN (a novella)
WHEN BEAUTY TAMED THE BEAST
STORMING THE CASTLE (a novella)
A KISS AT MIDNIGHT
A DUKE OF HER OWN
THIS DUCHESS OF MINE
WHEN THE DUKE RETURNS
DUCHESS BY NIGHT
AN AFFAIR BEFORE CHRISTMAS
DESPERATE DUCHESSES
PLEASURE FOR PLEASURE
THE TAMING OF THE DUKE
KISS ME, ANNABEL
MUCH ADO ABOUT YOU
YOUR WICKED WAYS
A WILD PURSUIT
FOOL FOR LOVE
DUCHESS IN LOVE
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