Slow start but great finish | This Duchess of Mine (Desperate Duchesses)

Heroes come in all sizes! | This Duchess of Mine (Desperate Duchesses) | Eloisa James

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	• This Duchess of Mine (Desperate Duchesses) Eloisa James Avon, 2009 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 27 reviews view larger image
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Awesome Read

This book was very good and included some interesting details that really made it stand out from many other romance novels. I won't go into the entire plot as most of the other reviewers already have, but the story of Jemma and Elijah was very engaging. The chess details (even though I don't even know how to play chess) were very entertaining. The medical plotline was awesome. As someone from the medical field, I really enjoyed reading about their adventures in finding a cure (a medication that is still used now) for Elijah's heart problems. I did wonder why they had been apart 9 whole years since it seems like they were meant to be together, but since the book began as they were on their way back to each other, coupled with the fact that I couldn't give the book 4.5 stars, I will give it a 5 star rating. LOVED IT. :)

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Slow start but great finish

I have really enjoyed the Duchess series and was looking forward to Jemma and Elijah's book, so I was a little dissapointed when I first started it. I expected it to be a bit stronger, maybe even more passionate as Jemma always handed out great advice to her other Duchess friends that she didnt seem to use for herself. It did pick up about 1/4 way through and got better and as always ended too quickly. Finally it looks like they fell in love and at the end (spoiler) had a family of their own. I also liked that Villiers got his act together with his children which sets up the next book beautifully. I was wondering how James was going to make me like him when he was such a self absorbed prat in the previous books. Looking forward to what happens to him in the final of the series. Hoping also that there is an epilogue that touches on all the duchesses in the final book? Fingers Crossed. Definatley buy this book, but start at the beginning of the series.

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Heroes come in all sizes!

Jemma, the Duchess of Beaumont, walked out on her husband, their marriage, and his mistress. Years later, she is called home from France to produce an heir. Jemma and Elijah do their best to grate on each other's nerves. As an MP in the house of Lords, and now ill (bad heart), he must decide whether he will take her to bed or possibly die in service to his country. Jemma ends up doing all in her power to find a cure for what ails him and to get him to return her rekindled love. Eloisa gives us a great inside view of Parliament, the medical community, and the somewhat painful lives of England's upper class.

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No man can resist Jemma's sensuous allure . . . Except her own husband!

Wedding bells celebrating the arranged marriage between the lovely Duchess of Beaumont and her staid, imperturbable duke had scarcely fallen silent when a shocking discovery sent Jemma running from the ducal mansion. For the next nine years she cavorted abroad, creating one delicious scandal after another (if one is to believe the rumors).

Elijah, Duke of Beaumont, did believe those rumors.

But the handsome duke needs an heir, so he summons his seductive wife home. Jemma laughs at Elijah's cool eyes and icy heart?but to her secret shock, she doesn't share his feelings. In fact, she wants the impossible: her husband's heart at her feet.

But what manner of seduction will make a man fall desperately in love . . . with his own wife?

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