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The Taming of the Duke

Essex Sisters, Book 3

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Imogen, Lady Maitland, has decided to dance on the wild side. After all, she's in the delicious position of being able to take a lover: a discreet male who knows just when to leave in the morning.

But Lady Maitland is still under the watchful eye of her former guardian, the wildly untamed Rafe, the Duke of Holbrook. He believes she is still in need of a "watchdog". She laughs at the idea that someone so insufferably lazy and devoted to drink can demand that she behave with propriety.

It's Rafe's long-lost brother, a man who looks precisely like the duke but with none of his degenerate edge, who interests Imogen. To Imogen, he's the shadow duke... the man who really should hold the title. But when Imogen agrees to accompany Gabe to a masquerade - whose masked eyes watch her with that intense look of desire? Who exactly is she dancing with? The duke or the shadow duke? Rafe... or Gabe?

Spend some more time with the Essex Sisters.©2006, 2011 Eloisa James (P)2012 HarperCollinsPublishers Regency Romance Historical Romance Regency Historical Fiction Fiction

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"RITA Award-winning James' latest addition to her Essex sisters series is truly delectable. James' writing is graceful and witty, her plot delightfully clever, and her characterization - including the captivating Miss Gillian Pythian-Adams - is nothing less than brilliant." ( Booklist
"James's considerable talents for clever prose and tight, breezy plotting are on full display, promising a perennial delight in each coming adventure of the Essex sisters." ( Publishers Weekly)

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I have read two of the four books in the series and have loved them both. I especially like triumph over an addiction and anything related to Dukes so this book was particularly delicious to me. The topping to this cake is EJ’s passionate scenes. She has a gift for writing. A VERY entertaining book

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This and Anabel's stories are the two best of the Essex sisters books, but they are all excellent. Some of Eloisa James's best work

I love the Essex sisters stories

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Love it. I will listen to it again. Rich story with multiple story lines.

Loved the story and series

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Great story, great characters, great passion, great romance, great narrator. Just great overall. Never read an Eloisa James story that I didn't like.

Great story!

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Susan Duerden is one of my two favorite narrators (the other being Rosalyn Landor).

Eloisa James is among my favorite authors, as well . It's especially enjoyable, when two artists pair so well . This book is exemplary!

If you like historical romance with characters you really get to know (and love), wit mixed balanced with deeper emotion, and underlying literary references, this whole set of novels will delight! I can't decide which is my favorite, but i believe it's this one. Read them all! In order, if you can...
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Best of the best!

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