Beauty and the Duke
Subtitle: Mystical Bliss - 1
By: Melody Thomas
Series: Mystical Bliss - 1
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9780061472671
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Fiction
First sentence: London is becoming overrun with tourists and children," Christine Sommers stated to her friend and assistant Amelia, from her seat atop the stone steps leading into London's popular museum of antiquities.
Description: "Once, ten years ago, they were young lovers sharing sinful touches and desperate ecstasy. But he was bound to another. Since that fateful time, Christine Sommers has grown into a headstrong beauty, the kind of woman who thinks nothing of daring travels to the ends of the world. But for all her achievements, Christine has never found anyone who makes her heart race the way Erik Boughton did. Since that fateful time, Erik Boughton, the Duke of Sedgwick, has become something of a beast, at least according to the gossips of the ton. They say he is cursed, that any woman who shares his bed will meet an untimely end. But when he comes to Christine, desperate for her help to preserve his family and his title, she does not fear the devil duke. Enthralled by his ravenous desire, she would give him anything he wished even her body-- and her heart"--Author's web site.