Kiss Me, Annabel [Mass Market Paperback]

Praise for Much Ado About You:

Great fun and love the modern take on a classic Regency romance, with all its nods and winks to Austena great achievement that matches fast-paced romance with well-crafted social observationbravo for Eloisa!FIONA WALKER

Great fun! I couldn't put it down. Move over Georgette Heyer! DAISY WAUGH

Hurrah! Romance is back in fashion. No grisly body count, no lurking serial killer. The only four-letter word is love. Choc-full of romantic heroes that would give Darcy a run for his money. Sheer joy from beginning to end. Carole Matthews

In the first in a new series featuring the wonderfully amusing Essex sisters, New York Times best-selling James' gift for superb characterization and elegantly sensual, delightfully witty prose creates a thoroughly romantic treat. Booklist

A smash hit in the US, Much Ado About You should be every bit as successful here.Daily Mirror

Regency romance at its best.Bookstore

A Regency historical from the New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James, bound to delight Heyer fans.

If you kiss a man once

When the dashing Earl of Ardmore tempts Miss Annabel Essex, the most unattainable of the four beautiful Essex sisters, with the promise of a kiss, she resists, just as she snubs his teasing offers of marriage. For what would she get if she married him? Why, nothing but a faded Scottish title and a hovel in the highlands.

But by some cruel twist of fate Annabel finds herself in a carriage bound for Scotland (the place she abhors) with the penniless Ardmore  and with all the world thinking they're man and wife! To make matters worse Annabel becomes embroiled in a flirtatious game of words with the Earl  in which the prize is a kissand the forfeit A moment of passionate madness with Ardmore and the choice is clear  marriage or disgrace.

Yet when she arrives at the Earl's Scottish Estate  contrary to what she had been lead to believe  she finds the hovel to be a castle and her Earl far from impoverished. And she learns  in the bridal bedchamber and elsewhere  that there is more to marriage than just kissing

Eloisa James is a professor of English literature, specializing in Shakespeare. She teaches at Fordham University in New York City, and lives in New Jersey. Oxford University Press published her academic book in 2000. Eloisa's books have been translated into Dutch, Russian, German, Polish, French and Spanish. She is the daughter of poet Robert Bly (winner of the American Book Award for Poetry) and short story author Carol Bly. Eloisas godfather was the poet James Wright, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his Collected Poems. Among those poems  and one of Wright's most beloved  is a poem written for his goddaughter, Mary Bly (aka Eloisa James).