An Affair Before Christmas

'I feel in love with romance on the spot. But my father was a poet, and he would have preferred that I had fallen in love with Whitman. So he laid down the law: for very romance, I read a classic...

One spectacular Christmas, Lady Perdita Selby, known to her friends and family as Poppy, met the man she thought she would love forever. Four years later, Poppy and the duke have become the toast of the town... but behind closed doors the spark of their love affair has burned out. Fortunately, Poppy has a charming but shrewd friend, the Duchess of Beaumont. Who reveals to Poppy a world of strategy and desire that will change Poppy's whole outlook on love forever.

Eloisa James is an accomplished scholar, who has degrees from Harvard, Oxford a Masters in Philosophy and a PhD from Yale. She is a Shakespearean professor and has published an academic book with oxford University Press. Currently Eloisa is an associate professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department at Fordham University in New York City.

A regular bestseller in the United States, France, Spain, Japan, Poland, Holland, Italy, Germany, Portugal and Russia- An Affair Before Christmas is the long awaited sequel to Desperate Duchesses- last year's hit romance which went straight onto the New York Times bestseller list after its US release.

An Affair Before Christmas
Hachette Live
Author: Eloisa James
Price: $32.99