He left behind a couple of dumbfounded men. It was unfortunate that the task of finding her seemed Herculean. Someone who was amusing and would talk to him, rather than reflecting back his own empty jokes. But what he really wanted wasn’t money, a single woman as rich as Berwick’s Aunt Augusta. He turned and walked a few feet before scanning the room for a wife. Darlington nodded at him, and nodded to Thurman.
They had banded together on a whim, and it seemed they would part with as little ceremony, albeit years later. “It’s been a pleasure,” he said, a marked lack of interest in his voice. “Witless? Everyone knows we’re the clever ones,” Thurman bleated.ĭarlington didn’t know why he’d spent so much time with such a cretin.īerwick was as intelligent as they came, and he didn’t show a flash of emotion at this sudden parting of boyhood friends. In truth, I did it for the pleasure of herding about all the witless men who call themselves gentlemen, and damned if I didn’t make myself as witless as the least of them.” I can’t believe I did anything prompted by Crogan, who has to be one of the more repellent fools on the earth. “It wasn’t as clever as the Wooly Breeder, though God knows I probably shouldn’t have done that either. Taking the Regency historical to fresh new places, with artful smoothness and irrepressible humor, Eloisa James delivers a winsome tale of first love and life's unexpected surprises.īONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Eloisa James's Paris in Love.“I shouldn’t have done it,” Darlington said. The intricate web that a now-wiser Charlotte weaves to exact her due ensures justice for some and great merriment for all. But she certainly remembers him she has since learned not only his identity, but also a titillating piece of gossip about him that is sure to set society abuzz. Years later, when they meet again, the rogue does not remember Charlotte. Pushing propriety aside, one evening she sneaks out with a friend to attend a masked ball, and there meets a devastatingly handsome stranger who relieves her-not against her wishes-of her virtue, then vanishes. With an uncanny wit and an eye for the whimsical, she unravels a complex-and often hilarious-chain of events inadvertently set in motion by a young woman's first taste of forbidden pleasure.Ībout to make her debut in London society, Charlotte Calverstill, beneath the lavish gowns and manners of a well-brought-up young lady, yearns for a taste of freedom. Eloisa James breathes new life into one of the most popular fiction genres with her highly original debut novel Potent Pleasures, a charming, vividly peopled Regency romance.
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