Once Upon a Tower
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A duke fell in love
Gowan Stoughton of Craigievar, Duke of Kinross, values order and self-control above all else. So when he meets a lady as serene as she is beautiful, he promptly asks for her hand in marriage.
With a lady
Edieâwhose passionate temperament is the opposite of sereneâhad such a high fever at her own debut ball that she didnât notice anyone, not even the notoriously elusive Duke of Kinross. When her father accepts his offerâĻ she panics.
And when their marriage night isnât all it could be, she pretends.
In a tower.
But Edieâs inability to hide her feelings makes pretending impossible, and when their marriage implodes, she retreats to a towerâlocking Gowan out.
Now Gowan faces his greatest challenge. Neither commands nor reason work with his spirited young bride. How can he convince her to give him the keys to the towerâĻ
When she already has the keys to his heart?
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Eloisa James is a USA Today and 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.
