title: Enchanting Pleasures
author:  Eloisa James 
description: In keeping with the previous installments of James's regency trilogy (Potent Pleasures; Midnight Pleasures), this final volume offers dual romances, charismatic characters, and a healthy dose of humor. Gabrielle Jerningham, aptly nicknamed "Gabby," has left India and her missionary father to marry dapper Peter Dewland, the Viscount Dewland's second son. A true romantic and a consummate storyteller, Gabby fancies herself in love with Peter even though they've never met, and she's dismayed that Peter's imposing older brother, Quill, is the one to greet her upon her arrival in England. Although Quill is pleasantly amused by Gabby's guileless beauty and unpolished manners, Peter is appalled by his "overfleshy" fianc and her pass wardrobe. Peter's low estimation of Gabby heightens when he escorts her to a soiree and the bodice of her new French gown falls to her waist. To spare Gabby the humiliation of Peter's rejection, Quill pretends to be smitten with her and proposes that she marry him instead. The pair seem well suited until Quill reveals the reason why he is reticent to consummate their marriage: due to a horse-riding injury, whenever Quill performs "rhythmical exercise," he suffers a three-day migraine afterward. Though far-fetched, this turn of events proves to be a lively, entertaining test of their marriage as Gabby visits apothecaries by day and experiments with other remedies at night. A side story involving the East India Company's search for a missing Indian prince provides the narrative with depth and a little political intrigue, and an additional romance between a former marquis and a gossip columnist is a pleasing touch. Once again, James weaves a story as rich in plot as in character.
zlib_text: Eloisa James
  A Wild Pursuit
  
  For my wonderful critique partner, Jessica Benson,
  who lends me her intelligent language
  and her biting wit.
  Readers should be aware that
  all the funniest lines are hers.
  
  Contents
  1
  In Which Scandal Brews in Wiltshire
  2
  A Hen Party…Plus One
  3
  So Young and Yet So Diabolic
  4
  The Garden of Eden
  5
  Anticipation
  6
  The Contrariness of Men Hardly Bears Repeating
  7
  A Saint, a Sinner, and a Goat
  8
  The Sewing Circle
  9
  Prudishness…That Coveted Quality
  10
  The Heights of Pleasure
  11
  The Delights of Poetry
  12
  Beds, Baths, and Night Rails
  13
  In Which Countess Godwin Learns Salutary Lessons about Desire
  
  14
  Because the Library is Not Yet Emptied of Books
  15
  The Imprint of a Man’s Skin
  16
  The Unexpected Pleasure of Your Company
  17
  Playing at Billiards
  18
  In Which Curiosity Runs Rampant
  19
  Yours to Woo
  20
  Twenty Minutes Later…Privacy at Last
  21
  In Which a Marquess Pays a Call on a Lady
  22
  The Infernal Circle
  23
  Various Forms of Advertisement
  24
  Waltzing on One’s Deathbed
  25
  