<p><b>Eloisa James returns with another fabulous romance in her <i>New York Times</i> bestselling Desperate Duchesses by the Numbers series!</b><br /><br />As a young girl, Emilia Gwendolyn Carrington told the annoying future Duke of Pindar that she would marry any man in the world before him-so years later she is horrified to realize that she has nowhere else to turn.<br /><br />Evander Septimus Brody has his own reasons for agreeing to Mia&apos;s audacious proposal, but there&apos;s one thing he won&apos;t give his inconvenient wife: himself. Instead, he offers Mia a devil&apos;s bargain . . . he will spend four nights a year with her. Four nights, and nothing more. And those only when she begs for them.<br /><br />Which Mia will never do.<br /><br />Now Vander faces the most crucial challenge of his life: he must seduce his own wife in order to win her heart-and no matter what it takes, this is the one battle he can&apos;t afford to lose.<br /><br /><b>Eloisa&apos;s witty, romantic Georgian romances are perfect for fans of Julia Quinn, Lisa Kleypas and Georgette Heyer</b></p>