title: Cinderella Dreams: The Allure Of The Lavish Wedding (Life Passages)
author: Cele C. Otnes
description: "Elizabeth Pleck and Cele Otnes pair their distinct talents to offer us a lavish display of the lavish wedding. In fascinating and often surprising detail--across time and place--they make sense of why we have clung to and, in fact, have radically embellished this vestige of Victorian culture."
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  Never Tempt a Duke
  
  He could not forgive her deception. She could not resist the desire they
  shared. When a scandal forces them to marry, their passions lead to dangerous
  secrets.
  
  DEVERELL REGARDED his beautiful bride dispassionately. He had begun to
  think—hope—he could find in her what he’d never had before.
  
  That had disintegrated into ashes when she tricked him into marriage.
  
  Now, the wedding breakfast done, the revelry just beginning, she gave him a
  nervous glance from where she stood near the arbor. He returned her gaze, took
  note of the wreath of baby’s breath and pink roses atop her head, the Belgian
  lace train cascading from her shoulders and draping loosely over her bare arms
  before falling to the hem of her gown, and felt nothing. She was beautiful,
  fairy-like, virginal. Deceitful.
  
  A changeling, he told himself. She’d undergone so many transformations since
  he’d first met her that he wasn’t certain who she really was. Exce