<p>''Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than Eloisa James'' - <b>Julia Quinn</b><br><br><b>How can she dare to imagine he loves her... when all London calls her The Ugly Duchess?</b><br><br>Theodora Saxby is the last woman anyone expects the gorgeous James Ryburn, heir to the Duchy of Ashbrook, to marry. But after a romantic proposal before the prince himself, even practical Theo finds herself convinced of her soon-to-be duke''s passion. Still, the tabloids give the marriage six months. <br><br>Theo would have given it a lifetime . . . until she discovers that James desires not her heart, and certainly not her countenance, but her dowry.<br><br>Society was shocked by their wedding, but it''s scandalized by their separation. James heads to sea where he becomes a notorious pirate, and Theo builds their estate into a flourishing concern. Back from the seas, a scandalous tattoo of a poppy under one eye, James now faces the battle of his lifetime: convincing Theo that he loved the duckli