Fairy Tales
5 primary works • 7 total works
Book 1
Book 1.5
Not every fairy tale begins with a prince or a princess . . .
When Miss Philippa Damson runs away from home to Pomeroy Castle, she is far from a princess . . . she's an extraordinary beauty with ordinary dreams - to live a quiet life as a nursemaid.
Jonas Berwick, rakish son of a grand duke, has vowed never to wed. He offers Philippa everything - except his hand in marriage.
Philippa has stormed the castle, but now she faces an impossible challenge: to win the love of a prince, she may have to risk everything that makes her a lady.
Will the sacrifice of her honour be too high a price to pay?
'Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than Eloisa James' Julia Quinn
Book 2
'Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than Eloisa James' - Julia Quinn
Miss Linnet Berry Thrynne is a Beauty . . . Naturally, she's betrothed to a Beast.
If only her gown hadn't been so fully cut, or she hadn't been caught kissing that prince . . . But now the ton believes Linnet to be with royal child - and therefore unmarriageable - so she might as well make her desperate father happy by consenting to wed a beast.
A brilliant surgeon with a reputation for losing his temper - and a wound believed to have left him . . . incapable - Piers, Earl of Montague, should welcome a bride-to-be carrying a ready-made, blue-blooded heir. But Piers isn't fooled by the lady's subterfuge, and though Linnet's devilishly smart and charming with a loveliness that outshines the sun, there will be no wedding of beauty to beast.
Still, Linnet finds the gorgeous brute intriguing, with a spark of gentility behind his growl that's worth fanning. And it's obvious to the naked eye that 'incapable' does not mean 'uninterested'...
'Eloisa James is extraordinary' - Lisa Kleypas
'Romance writing does not get much better than this' - People
Book 3
'Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than Eloisa James' - Julia Quinn
Once upon a time, not so very long ago...
Tarquin, the powerful Duke of Sconce, knows perfectly well that the decorous and fashionably slender Georgiana Lytton will make him a proper duchess. So why can't he stop thinking about her twin sister, the curvy, headstrong, and altogether unconventional Olivia? Not only is Olivia betrothed to another man, but their improper - albeit intoxicating - flirtation makes her unsuitability all the more clear.
Determined to make a perfect match, he methodically cuts Olivia from his thoughts, allowing logic and duty to triumph over passion . . . until, in his darkest hour, Tarquin begins to question whether perfection has anything to do with love. To win Olivia's hand he would have to give up all the beliefs he holds most dear, and surrender heart, body and soul - but it may already be too late.
'Eloisa James is extraordinary' - Lisa Kleypas
'Romance writing does not get much better than this' - People
Book 4
'Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than Eloisa James' - Julia Quinn
How can she dare to imagine he loves her... when all London calls her The Ugly Duchess?
Theodora Saxby is the last woman anyone expects the gorgeous James Ryburn, heir to the Duchy of Ashbrook, to marry. But after a romantic proposal before the prince himself, even practical Theo finds herself convinced of her soon-to-be duke's passion. Still, the tabloids give the marriage six months.
Theo would have given it a lifetime . . . until she discovers that James desires not her heart, and certainly not her countenance, but her dowry.
Society was shocked by their wedding, but it's scandalized by their separation. James heads to sea where he becomes a notorious pirate, and Theo builds their estate into a flourishing concern. Back from the seas, a scandalous tattoo of a poppy under one eye, James now faces the battle of his lifetime: convincing Theo that he loved the duckling who blossomed into the swan. Theo will quickly find that for a man with the soul of a pirate, all's fair in love - or war.
'Eloisa James is extraordinary' - Lisa Kleypas
'Romance writing does not get much better than this' - People
Book 4.5
'Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than Eloisa James' - Julia Quinn
A swash-buckling flight of fancy from the queen of Regency romance, Eloisa James.
Sir Griffin Barry leapt out of the bedchamber window at age seventeen after a very disappointing wedding night, drank a bit too much at the pub and woke to find that he'd joined the crew of a pirate ship! Years later, he has become one of the most feared pirates on the high seas, piloting the Flying Poppy, a ship he named after the wife whom he fondly (if vaguely) remembers.
What happens when a pirate decides to come home to his wife - if she is his wife - given that the marriage was never consummated? And what happens when that pirate strolls through his front door and is met by . . . well, that's a surprise!
'Eloisa James is extraordinary' - Lisa Kleypas
'Romance writing does not get much better than this' - People
Book 5
