In this adjunct book to The Ugly Duchess, Eloisa James ties
off the dangling ends of Griffith, James Ryburns piratical
partner's story as he heads to Bath to meet his bride for
the first time since their misfire of a wedding night.
Griffin left his wife still a virgin but is returning home
to three young children who bear his name.
Still, as he was hardly a priest while off on his adventures
he can't blame Phoebe for wanting a bit of warmth in her
bed. And it is good to have the succession of the family
title well in hand. Besides, now that he is home things can
take their natural course and they can pick up where they
left off.
Phoebe was relieved when her young stripling of a husband
sent news he was alive, but after fourteen years of absence
she has created a life with her three adopted children and
her friends that she finds very satisfactory. Surely there
are grounds for an annulment. When Griffith shows up
assuming he shall have full rights to the marriage bed she
realizes the youth who leapt out their bedroom window has
been replaced with a tattooed pirate who is used to taking
what he wants.
James' trademark wit shimmers through this delightful tale
of love found in the most unlikely of places, a marriage bed
left cold for fourteen years. It is a joy that she takes the
time and effort to satisfy readers' questions about
characters mentioned in her main books, the smaller novellas
she writes are a welcome taste of her fairy tale series
between the main volumes. I greedily snap up anything she
publishes and I am certain I am not alone in that. SEDUCED
BY A PIRATE
provides a suitable introduction to Eloisa
James' work if you are new to her always entertaining
stories.
Sir Griffin Barry leapt out of the bedchamber window at
age seventeen after a very disappointing wedding night,
drank a bit too much at the pub...and woke to find that
he'd join the crew of a pirate ship! Years later, he's
become one of the most feared pirates on the high seas,
piloting the Flying Poppy, a ship he named after the wife
whom he fondly (if vaguely) remembers.
What happens when a pirate decides to come home to his
wife...if she is his wife, given that the marriage was
never consummated? And what happens when that pirate
strolls through his front door and is met by...
Well, that's a surprise!
Don't miss this enchanting, sexy tale of a pirate and
the wife he never knew—but is determined to seduce.
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