The Ugly Duchess
Eloisa James
Fairy Tales #4
She married for love, he married for money — now he must win back the duchess he never deserved.
Description
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 desired not her heart, and certainly not her countenance, but her dowry. Society was shocked by their wedding; it's scandalized by their separation.Now James faces the battle of his lifetime, convincing Theo that he loved the duckling who blossomed into the swan.And Theo will quickly find that for a man with the soul of a pirate, All's Fair in Love — or War.
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