![]() ![]() The tension and humor, love and drama are all artfully woven together in this exceptionally written love story. As the newspapers hail her the ugly duchess and her likeness shows up in shop windows rudely drawn, as the truth about the financial state of the estate and what the old duke has been doing come out, it just keeps getting worse and you know it will explode at any moment. You know from the start three things: that Theo is ugly, that James loves her more than anyone else in the world and doesn’t see her that way, and that because of the circumstances of their engagement and marriage Theo is never going to believe him. To solve all the problems in one smooth move, he demands that his son James marry Theo – even though she is very ugly. The Duke was in charge of her vast fortune until she came of age and would marry, but unfortunately he’s been stealing bits of it to pay off debts and now finds himself in a bind. Theo’s father died when she was a child, and she (and her mother) moved into the home of the Duke of Ashbrook and his son James. Everyone knew that swans got everything they wanted. Perhaps she was in a fever dream.Īfter all, the fairy story was supposed to end when the Ugly Duckling became a swan. ![]() Perhaps if she napped, she would wake to find that this day had never happened. ![]() The Ugly Duchess by Eloisa James (Fairy Tales #4) ![]()
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