A Gentleman Never Tells

  “She’s a lady!” her mother had retorted, in pure horror.

  “Precisely,” Clement had said, bowed, and left.

  Now Cecilia turned to her mother. “I’m not threatening to run away from home this time, Mama. I’ve done nothing more outrageous than commission new gowns.”

  “I suppose we have no choice at this point,” her mother said, as tragically as any Cleopatra. “I might as well face the humiliation now, as wait for London.”

  “It can’t be more humiliating than having a wallflower as a daughter,” Cecilia pointed out.

  “Oh, how little you know of the world,” her mother said grimly.

  About the Author

  ELOISA JAMES is a New York Times bestselling author and professor of English literature who lives with her family in New York, but can sometimes be found in Paris or Italy. She is the mother of two and, in a particularly delicious irony for a romance writer, is married to a genuine Italian knight. Visit her at www.eloisajames.com.

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  WHEN BEAUTY TAMED THE BEAST

  STORMING THE CASTLE (a novella)

  A KISS AT MIDNIGHT

  A DUKE OF HER OWN

  THIS DUCHESS OF MINE

  WHEN THE DUKE RETURNS

  DUCHESS BY NIGHT

  AN AFFAIR BEFORE CHRISTMAS

  DESPERATE DUCHESSES

  PLEASURE FOR PLEASURE

  THE TAMING OF THE DUKE

  KISS ME, ANNABEL

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  YOUR WICKED WAYS

  A WILD PURSUIT

  FOOL FOR LOVE

  DUCHESS IN LOVE

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