He doesn’t tell Grace all this, of course, but sensing his unhappiness, Grace asks if she can write to him – and he agrees. This is a time of war and he hates the killing and having to watch his men die while he comes through without a scratch. On one of the rare occasions they meet subsequently when Colin is on leave, Grace discerns that Colin is not completely happy with his lot – and he isn’t. In the first – which was my favourite and definitely the best part – Grace and Colin meet when they are both quite young (Grace is ten, I think) and he is about to join the navy. The story falls, naturally, into three distinct parts. The protagonists are Lady Grace Ryburn, who is the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Ashbrook ( The Ugly Duchess) and Colin Barry, the adopted son of Gavin Barry who also featured in that novel and subsequently in his own novella ( Seduced by a Pirate). With this Kiss is a story that was published in a kind of serial form, in three separate instalments. Please stop by and join the conversation on my readers' pages. In fact, we have something of a community going on my website. And I have girlfriends who are romance readers. I have girlfriends who are writers and girlfriends who are Shakespeare professors. It always strikes me as a huge irony that as a romance writer I find myself married to a knight, a cavaliere, as you say in Italian. We spend the lazy summer months with his mother and sister in Italy. My husband Alessandro is Italian, born in Florence. So I'm a writer, a professor, a mother - and a wife. When I wrote about a miscarriage in Midnight Pleasures, I used my own fears of premature birth when the little girl in Fool For Love threw up and threw up, I described my own daughter, who had that unsavory habit for well over her first year of life. Just as I use Shakespeare in my romances, I almost always employ my experiences as a mother. When I rip off my power suit, whether it's academic or romantic, underneath is the rather tired, chocolate-stained sweatshirt of a mom. I often weave early modern poetry into my work the same novel might contain bits of Catullus, Shakespeare and anonymous bawdy ballads from the 16th century. The Taming of the Duke (April 2006) has obvious Shakespearean resonances, as do many of my novels. Yet the literature professor in me certainly plays into my romances. It's like being Superman, with power suits for both lives. The other day I bought a delicious pink suit to tape a television segment on romance I'll never wear that suit to teach in, nor even to give a paper at the Shakespeare Association of America conference. When I'm not writing novels, I'm a Shakespeare professor. In her professorial guise, she's written a New York Times op-ed defending romance, as well as articles published everywhere from women's magazines such as More to writers' journals such as the Romance Writers' Report. Her "double life" is a source of fascination to the media and her readers. Currently she is an associate professor and head of the Creative Writing program at Fordham University in New York City. from Yale and eventually became a Shakespeare professor, publishing an academic book with Oxford University Press. A reviewer from USA Today wrote of Eloisa's very first book that she "found herself devouring the book like a dieter with a Hershey bar" later People Magazine raved that "romance writing does not get much better than this." Her novels have repeatedly received starred reviews from Publishers' Weekly and Library Journal and regularly appear on the best-seller lists.Īfter graduating from Harvard University, Eloisa got an M.Phil. Her novels have been published to great acclaim. New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James writes historical romances for HarperCollins Publishers. Yet the same warrior's spirit that won so many battles at sea is prompting him to throw propriety to the winds, imitate his pirate father, and simply take what he most desires! Lieutenant Colin Barry returns from the wars knowing that he has no right to steal Grace from the arms of her fiancé. Lady Grace Ryburn has accepted another man's proposal after the love of her life, Lieutenant Colin Barry, asked for her own sister's hand in marriage.īut when Colin returns home from the wars, injured in body and spirit, will she be able to turn her back and marry another? Or will she throw away every rule her mother taught her and try to seduce a man who has shown no interest in her kisses? When he returns home to exuberant celebrations, will he even notice the quiet wallflower he grew up with … or will he fall for Grace's sparkling, gorgeous sister? Lady Grace Ryburn, the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Ashbrook, has fallen wildly in love with Colin Barry, a dashing young lieutenant serving his country in the Royal Navy.
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