Once upon a time...
A duke fell in love
Gowan Stoughton of Craigievar, Duke of Kinross, values order and self-control above all else. So when he meets a lady as serene as she is beautiful, he promptly asks for her hand in marriage.
With a lady
Edie--whose passionate temperament is the opposite of serene--had such a high fever at her own debut ball that she didn't notice anyone, not even the notoriously elusive Duke of Kinross. When her father accepts his offer... she panics.
And when their marriage night isn't all it could be, she pretends.
In a tower.
But Edie's inability to hide her feelings makes pretending impossible, and when their marriage implodes, she retreats to a tower--locking Gowan out.
Now Gowan faces his greatest challenge. Neither commands nor reason work with his spirited young bride. How can he convince her to give him the keys to the tower...
When she already has the keys to his heart?
This book was really fun and different. I totally bought into the fairy tale of Edie and Gowan, they were young, strong characters who were easy to fall in love with. The secondary characters were fun too! It was easy to imagine the music too
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This is the first Eloisa James book that I didn't enjoy. I have read at least 10 of her other books like the Desperate Duchess series and really like her. But this one, not too much. It was supposed to be a play on (or like) the Princess and the Pea but it was hard at times to connect the dots. I have purchased all the others in the Fairy Tale series by her, so I'll see if they get any better.
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