In addition, while the customary hallmarks are in evidence-the breathless, drawn-out sex scenes the misunderstandings that almost ruin everything-these contretemps flow naturally from the characterizations and plot, and contribute to an engaging story.
Listen online or offline with Android, iOS, web, Chromecast, and Google Assistant. Get instant access to all your favorite books. Her spritely tale takes on substance with a subplot about events in the Ottoman Empire. Midnight Pleasures audiobook written by Eloisa James. James ( Potent Pleasures) proves herself a notable chronicler of the genre here. But each has separate, unspoken fears-she of his assumed infidelity, he of her early death from childbirth-that puts them at cross-purposes, until tragedy strikes. They find they can't resist each other, so they bed and marry. After Patrick adopts a disguise as a favor to Lord Saslow, the fiery pair are thrown together. Patrick is stunned-a little relieved, but mostly stung: the proud lothario has fallen for Sophie.
She then accepts the proposal of his stodgy friend, Lord Slaslow. Sure that Patrick will always be a libertine, she turns him down when he asks for her hand. Sophie has determined never to marry, since her father is a notorious philanderer who constantly humiliates Sophie's mother with his flagrant pursuit of Frenchwomen.
Yet she finds herself in love with a man she is dead set against loving: Patrick Foakes, a handsome rake. One of the most marriageable young women in Regency London, she's also secretly brainy. And Patrick learns the ultimate lesson in love.īONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Eloisa James's Paris in Love.The daughter of the marquis of Brandenburg, Lady Sophie York is a beguiling and flirtatious innocent. One hasty wedding later, the passionate innocent and the sophisticated rogue play out their own intricate dance as Sophie masters what it takes to keep a man where he belongs. Neither does Sophie, Braddon, or the rest of the tattling ton. When Patrick, in disguise, scales a ladder to retrieve his friend's fiancée, he never expects the elopement to be his own. He may be an earl, but it is Patrick's stolen kisses that sear her lips. To her legions of adoring suitors, it comes as quite a shock when Lady Sophie York rejects an offer of marriage from the dashing, rakish Patrick Foakes in favor of amiable but dull Braddon Chatwin. In the night, all rules are forgotten.Įloisa James, the acclaimed author of Potent Pleasures, returns to Regency England with an unforgettable new heroine - a genteel but naughty innocent who gets more than she bargains for when she finally says yes to love. Midnight Pleasures (Pleasures Trilogy) by Eloisa James Paperback 18.89 by Eloisa James Paperback 16.25 by Eloisa James Mass Market Paperback 7.
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