Eloisa James: When Beauty Tamed the Beast (2011, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)
304 pages
English language
Published June 2, 2011 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.
"If only Miss Lisle Berry Thynne's gown hadn't been so fully cut, or she hadn't been caught kissing that prince ... But now the ton believes Lisle to be with royal child - and therefore unmarriageable - so she might as well make her desperate father happy by consenting to wed a beast. A brilliant surgeon with a reputation for losing his temper - and a wound believed to have left him ... incapable - Piers, Earl of Montague, should welcome a bride-to-be carrying a ready-made, blue-blooded heir. But Piers isn't fooled by the lady's subterfuge, and though Lisle's devilishly smart and charming with a loveliness that outshines the sun, there will be no wedding of beauty to beast."--Publisher description.
Piers, that is the Beast, is like House MD, but British. (So, imagine Hugh Laurie, but with his normal accent. Or break yourself with imagining a Wooster as a mean, competent, doctor).
I liked it. Linette, our heroine was the best character in my mind.
