Duchess in Love (2002) (Piatkus)Eloisa James
Grade: B-
Genre: historical romance
Sex scenes: mild
Source: own
Duchess Quartet: (1) Duchess in Love
Romance RBC 2015: A book with an arranged marriage
Forced into marriage aged twelve
to eighteen-year-old Camden, future Duke of Girton, Gina has only ever known
married life. However, she’s never known married life with her husband. Camden escaped out a window as soon as the
ceremony was over and has been sculpting nude women in Greece for extortionate
amounts of money and shocking the Ton ever since. When Gina requests an
annulment so she can marry the love of her life, Sebastian, Marquess of
Bonnington, Cam is only all too happy to oblige and returns to England for the
first time in over a decade to get the ball rolling. What Cam doesn’t expect is
to find that the slip of a girl he married has blossomed into a great beauty.
Living and socialising in close quarters at a house party, they’re both forced
to re-evaluate their decision to separate and find themselves distastefully
falling in love with each other!
