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As a young girl, Emilia Gwendolyn Carrington told the annoying future Duke of Pindar that she would marry any man in the world before him - so years later she is horrified to realise that she has nowhere else to turn. Evander Septimus Brody has his own reasons for agreeing to Mia's audacious proposal, but there's one thing he won't give his inconvenient wife: himself. Instead, he offers Mia a devil's bargain - he will spend four nights a year with her. Four nights, and nothing more. And those only when she begs for them. Which Mia will never do. Now Vander faces the most crucial challenge of his life: he must seduce his own wife in order to win her heart - and no matter what it takes, this is the one battle he can't afford to lose.
Series
8 primary booksDesperate Duchesses is a 8-book series with 8 primary works first released in 2007 with contributions by Eloisa James.
Series
3 primary booksDesperate Duchesses by the Numbers is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2014 with contributions by Eloisa James.
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It breaks my heart to do this, because Eloisa James is one of my all-time favorite romance authors. But I could not even make it more than 100 pages into this book. I tried a dozen times. No matter what mood I was in, no matter how much I wanted to like it, the hero was truly disgusting. I could not make myself want the heroine to actually wind up with him.