My fair princess

First Title Value for Searching:

My fair princess

Personal Author:

Kelly, Vanessa

Physical Description:

362 pages ; 18 cm.

Genre:

Romance fiction.

Historical fiction.

Summary:

Ordered home to England to find a suitable husband, willful beauty Gillian Dryden, the illegitimate daughter of a prince, is sent to the Duke of Leverton to be transformed from a tomboy into a blushing debutante, but her outrageous behavior sets the town on its ear and brings the Duke to his knees.

Subject Term:

Princesses -- Fiction.

Illegitimate children of royalty -- Fiction.

Nobility -- Fiction.

Publication Info:

New York, NY : Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., [2016]

Subject:

Princesses -- Fiction.

Illegitimate children of royalty -- Fiction.

Nobility -- Fiction.

England -- Fiction.

Romance fiction.

Historical fiction.

Royalty

Royal bastards

Noble class

Noble families

Nobles (Social class)

Peerage

Angleterre

Anglii͡a

Inghilterra

Engeland

Inglaterra

Anglija

SAILS ISBN:

9781420141092

Available:

Library	Shelf Number	Shelf Location	Status
Searching... Mansfield Public Library	FIC KELLY (PBK)	FICTION	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Plainville Public Library	F KELLY, V	FICTION	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

First, Vanessa Kelly brought readers The Renegade Royals. Now, in a delightfully witty new series, she introduces The Improper Princesses-three young women descended from royalty, each bound for her own thrilling adventure . . .

Despite being the illegitimate daughter of a prince, Gillian Dryden is happily ignorant of all social graces. After growing up wild in Italy, Gillian has been ordered home to England to find a suitable husband. And Charles Valentine Penley, the excessively proper, distractingly handsome Duke of Leverton, has agreed to help transform her from a willful tomboy to a blushing debutante.

Powerful and sophisticated, Charles can make or break reputations with a well-placed word. But his new protegee, with her habit of hunting bandits and punching earls, is a walking scandal. The ton is aghast . . . but Charles is thoroughly intrigued. Tasked with taking the hoyden in hand, he longs to take her in his arms instead. Can such an outrageous attraction possibly lead to a fairytale ending?

Praise for Vanessa Kelly's Renegade Royals series

"WilldefinitelyresonatewithfansofMary JoPutneyandJoanneBourne." -Booklist

"Kelly combines diverting dialogue, delightful surprises and finely tuned pacing to make this a winner." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Kelly's Improper Princesses Regency series opens gallantly with well-thought-out characters, madcap adventures, and London's cunning, cagey elite. Gillian Dryden's royal bloodline can't completely make up for her illegitimate birth and wild upbringing in Sicily. She becomes a target of Sicilian bandits and is brought back to England to be safely schooled in refinement and married off. Charles, Duke of Leverton, who's known as Perfect Penley, grudgingly agrees to be her social tutor. After Gillian assaults a boorish earl and shoots a robber, she is further tarnished socially. Gillian's continued recklessness and lack of decorum challenge Charles, and she begins to chip away at his controlled life. Gillian's antics imbue her story with energy and some intrigue, but the most affecting part of Kelly's tale is Charles's development as he falls in love with Gillian and breaks free of complacency and propriety. This is a fun ride with a colorful, adventurous heroine and a happily disconcerted, formerly perfect hero. Agent: Evan Marshall, Evan Marshall Agency. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

For heaven's sake, he's a duke, not a miracle worker! This is Charles Penley's first thought when Lady Lucy Marbury asks a favor of him. She wants him to help polish the spiky edges her granddaughter, Gillian Dryden, acquired while living in Sicily and then help smooth Gillian's way into the ton. Since Gillian seems to be more at ease with a rifle in her hands than a fan, Charles knows he is going to have his work cut out for him, teaching her how to be a proper English lady. Yet the more time Charles spends trying to turn Gillian into the brightest gem of the social season, the more he begins to miss the diamond in the rough he first met. Kelly (Confessions of a Royal Bridegroom, 2014) launches her new Improper Princesses series with another superbly crafted Regency historical romance that puts a clever spin on My Fair Lady while at the same time delivering the usual elegant writing tempered with a deliciously dry wit and artfully nuanced characters readers have come to expect from her.--Charles, John Copyright 2016 Booklist