Three Weeks With Lady X, Eloisa James
Three Weeks With Lady X, Eloisa James
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Three Weeks With Lady X

Author: Eloisa James

Narrator: Susan Duerden

Unabridged: 11 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 03/25/2014


Synopsis

The next fabulous romance by New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James.Having made a fortune, Thorn Dautry, the powerful bastard son of a duke, decides that he needs a wife. But to marry a lady, Thorn must acquire a gleaming, civilized façade, the specialty of Lady Xenobia India.Exquisite, headstrong, and independent, India vows to make Thorn marriageable in just three weeks.But neither Thorn nor India anticipate the forbidden passion that explodes between them.Thorn will stop at nothing to make India his. Failure is not an option.But there is only one thing that will make India his . . . the one thing Thorn can't afford to lose . . . his fierce and lawless heart.

About Eloisa James

To say, it runs in the family, is an understatement when referring to the writing career of author, Mary Bly. Her credentials are impeccable with degrees from various prestigious schools, such as Harvard, Oxford, and Yale. She is a tenured professor on William Shakespeare, and has published with the Oxford University Press.

While attending the University of Virginia on a humanities fellowship, Bly began writing romance novels. Granted, the novels are not modern day romance, but set in England's Regency Period, where her incomparable knowledge of William Shakespeare serves as an added bonus in her works. She began this genre of writing to expedite paying off her student loans. Her first attempt was very well received.......The Pleasure Trilogy......and sold many copies in hardback, and her advance payment from the book paid off that student loan debt. After that, she decided to publish under the pseudonym of Eloisa James and to only publish in paperback format. It was more of a mass-market plan. Both worked in her favor.

Most of Bly's novels are not typical in character for the romance genre. Most have a very beautiful female character and a romantic interest in a handsome male character. Bly deviates from the norm by featuring a plump female character, or a hero who annulled a marriage because of impotence. Women friends or sisters play important roles in a Bly novel, because she places importance on those relationships in her own life. Most of her novels are in trilogy form or groups of four. That format gives her more story line time to develop interesting characters.

It was several years before Bly uncovered her secret second career to her intellectually snooty colleagues. She even disguised her appearance when she addressed each group, readers of her novels, and colleagues. When she realized how popular her novels were with her readers, she revealed her secret by giving each faculty colleague a copy of her latest novel. It was well received by all. And for the fact that the talent runs in the family, Mary Bly's (Eloisa James) Father, Mother, and Uncle were writers. Her romance novels are very popular all around the world.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne

4.5 stars I know a lot of people are massive Eloisa James' fans, but she's not really my go-to romance author. I don't have any reason for that, so...shrugs My pointis, I didn't really go into this with any sort of expectations one way or the other. I basically snuggled up with a drink, curled up on......more

Goodreads review by Desi

Let me start by saying I loved Eloisa James' older works. I once upon a time read everything by her and she used to be on my must read shelf. Her humour is often laugh out loud. And there are very funny bits in this book. I particularly enjoyed the letter writing. The dialogue was a bit racy and ove......more

I may need a moment because the epilogue left me wrecked! Wonderfully wrecked though... Three Weeks With Lady X is the second book I've read by Eloisa James, the first having been My American Duchess which is also a favourite of mine. But Thorn has to be my favourite hero in James' books... so far t......more

Goodreads review by Susan

Eloisa James is consistently excellent! One more example.......more