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An Exceptional Duchess: A Short Sweet Kisses Only Romance

While I usually write books with plenty of sensual love scenes, I thought this heartfelt little love story would be a lovely change of pace. It is sweet and clean and contains only kisses. And just for a change the entire story is told from the point of view of the Hero. I hope you enjoy it. Thank you for reading.

An Exceptional Duchess

A Short Sweet Kisses Only Love Story

 

A short sweet love story told entirely from the perspective of the hero.

Maximillian Edward Grayson, Duke of Edgewater has lived a cold and privileged life. His parents married for duty and they expected him to do the same. But now that they are gone, he is dragging his feet. While he knows he must marry to secure the line, a marriage of convenience is the last thing he wants. Known as the ‘ice cold duke’, he finds it hard to shake off the years of imperious training to be the superior being he is expected to be. The debutantes are afraid of him, and the matchmaking mammas are on the hunt.

Returning to his estate, he encounters a girl who reminds him of someone he used to know many years ago, and she refuses to allow him to be even remotely imperious. Suddenly, he finds himself dipping his bare toes in the lake, running through the woods, and tossing aside convention.

 And he can’t quite believe that she is real. Is she?

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About Eros

Eros vs Cupid.

When I began writing my novel Midnight in the Garden with Eros  I did a little research into exactly who Eros was, and discovered that in early Greek mythology Eros was depicted as a beautiful young adult male in his prime, it was only over time that the Greek myth was hijacked by the Romans and he became younger and was eventually depicted as a winged baby.

Eros is known as the Greek god of passionate love, romance and physical desire, from which the term erotic is derived.

I needed a beautiful male figure, as my hero sculptor John Ivers Mason, has sculpted a statue of Eros (based upon his own lithe physique) to grace the gardens of Wilmington Hall that was both beautiful and sensual. And after all, a statue of Cupid, a chubby baby in a diaper wasn’t going to cut it.

A beautiful statue many consider to be Eros has graced the center of Piccadilly circus for many years. Though as it turns out, the figure was meant to be Anteros, the brother of Eros and god of mutual and selfless love. Though he does wield a bow just like his brother.

Here is the statue from Picadilly Circus.