An Affair Before Christmas by Eloisa James
Magic under the mistletoe…
One spectacular Christmas, Lady Perdita Selby, known to her friends and family as Poppy, met the man she thought she would love forever. The devilishly attractive Duke of Fletcher was the perfect match for the innocent, breathtakingly beautiful young Englishwoman, and theirs was the most romantic wedding she had ever seen. Four years later, Poppy and the duke have become the toast of the ton… but behind closed doors the spark of their love affair has burned out.
Unwilling to lose the woman he still lusts after, the duke is determined to win back his beguiling bride’s delectable affections…and surpass the heady days of first love with a truly sinful seduction.
Love the cover…
Anyone heard anything about this yet? I am getting a feeling of he tries to have an affair with his wife. But four years of marriage? A mask won’t sell that.
And does this count as a ‘Holiday theme book’?
I think it does count as a Holiday themed book, that’s one of the reasons I’m getting it after having been very disappointed with the first one in this series.
Gotta say this cover sorta creeps me out. I think it’s the powdered wig, mask and the color scheme (which looks “garish” to me). That said, major props to Avon for doing something different from man-titty and half-naked guys wearing capes while standing in a snow bank.
I lurve this cover. It’s just so striking (although I agree “garish” fits, for me that also fits the Georgian period, so it works for me.)
And, yes, thank god it’s not a naked man in a snowbank.
I really liked the first book in this series (different strokes… ) so am def getting this.
Like the cover – it’s really unusual and will stand out on the shelves, but it’s very different from the first book – it’s not very evident it’s part oi a series, is it?
Hmmm is it apart of the series? Guess so cuz she would be a desperate duchess 🙂
LOL I am blanking what is the ‘name’ of the series
It’s the ‘Desperate Duchesses’ series. That really is the name of it.
Although I just read on her website that it’s a six-book series now, instead of four. Hmm.
LOL guess I could have gone and done that huh? YAY I was right. When I saw that was the NAME of the last book I thought I was confused.
I loveses it. I loveses it.
That’s the only thing I’ll ever say about Eloisa’s covers, now that she’s given me a blurb.
🙂
Has anyone noticed that EJ had all those tasteful covers–flowers, landscape, whatnot–and suddenly Avon sprung a mantitty on her with The Taming of the Duke?
Not that it wasn’t a good mantitty cover–I loveses it, I loveses it–as far as mantitty covers go, but why then? And in the middle of a series too? (It was the third book in her Essex Sister Quartet)
Soooo what we need than are the sales figures. Did Taming of the Duke do better with a lil mantitty? Or does the lack of mantitty in the following three books answer that question?
Maybe it was just that it was horrid mantitty? I think I shrieked when I first saw it. Maybe she put her foot down and said, “no more mantitty”.
LOVE the cover. Can’t wait to get this one.