Duchess in Love Warning! In describing relations between characters, I may wreck a book for you by making it clear who someone marries, or the outcome of a book. Please do not read about The Inside Take if you're wary of knowing who is paired with whom!
» The Duchess in Love quartet should be read in this order: Duchess in Love, Fool for Love, A Wild Pursuit, Your Wicked Ways. » In Duchess, Gina's husband Cam returns from Greece and travels to a house party with his cousin, Stephen Fairfax-Lacy. Stephen is the hero of A Wild Pursuit, the third book in the series.
» I wrote most of Duchess having no idea what was inside the Aphrodite statue. It's a good way to give oneself an ulcer as a writer. But, as Stephen King writes in the incomparable On Writing: "why worry about the ending anyway? Why be such a control freak?" By the time I got to the finish it was absolutely clear that what was inside the Aphrodite would be the thing that Gina most needed, and I finally knew what that was. » The last chapter of Duchess in Love is a direct result of going to see The Mexican with my sister. I translated a plane into a carriage and voila! |
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- The Oakland Press, (posted December 15 2002)
- Suzanne Coleburn, Reader to Reader (posted December 15 2002)
Grade: B+ - Jane Jorgenson, All About Romance (posted December 14, 2002)
- HOST EBK Susan, Romance Fiction Forum Team Captain, America Online's Romance Fiction Forum (posted December 2002)
- Jane Bowers, Romance Reviews Today (posted December 2002)
- Publisher's Weekly (posted November 4, 2002)
"I found these engaging characters' intelligence and compassion refreshing, and while the plot may not be new, the characters are far from stereotypical, tedious or ordinary. The amusing, witty dialogue will make you smile as you follow Cam's schemes to capture Gina's heart. A unique and delightful tale." - Romantic Times BOOKreviews (posted October 2002)
- Old Book Barn Gazette, (posted December 2002) |
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| Camden William Serrard, the Duke of Girton, walked into the ballroom flanked by Tuppy Perwinkle and his cousin, Stephen Fairfax-Lacy. He looked about impatiently, hoping to see Gina. But there was no sight of her anywhere. A long winding line of dancers was slowly bouncing their way along a diagonal. Just then a gap in the line of dancers widened and he saw a gorgeous woman laughing up at her husband. Her body was so indicative of desire, bending toward the man like a willow toward the sun, that he felt a matching burn in his chest. She shook pale red hair over her shoulder and it fell like rose silk down her back. "My God," he said appreciatively, "who is that beautiful woman?" "Which?" "The one over there, dancing with her husband." Stephen leaned to the left so he could see and chuckled. "Why do you ask?" "She'd make a lovely Aphrodite," Cam said dreamily. "She's a scandal, though, isn't she? I think she's going to eat her husband alive, right there on the dance floor." Stephen straightened and the humor disappeared from his face. "That isn't her husband," he said flatly. "No." He cleared his throat. "You are her husband."
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