04225cam a2200433 4500 283151719 TxAuBib 20170130120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781420141108 1420141104 B0190HGU48 Amazon d8926ada-26ed-40aa-b9dd-54331c06b35f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2606915 OverDrive (Product ID) 536351 2606915 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kelly, Vanessa. My Fair Princess [Libby] : Improper Princesses Series, Book 1. Kensington, 2016. British. womens fiction. European. series. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 736kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 736kB. Fiction. Romance. Historical Fiction. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:<p>June 20, 2016<br /> 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. <em>Agent: Evan Marshall, Evan Marshall Agency.</em></p>. Publisher's Weekly. HTML:<i>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 . . .<br /></i>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.<br /> Powerful and sophisticated, Charles can make or break reputations with a well-placed word. But his new protégée, with her habit of hunting bandits and punching earls, is a walking scandal. The <i>ton</i> 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?<br /> <br /> <b>Praise for Vanessa Kelly's Renegade Royals series<br /></b>"Will definitely resonate with fans of Mary Jo Putney and Joanne Bourne." <i>—Booklist<br /></i>"Kelly combines diverting dialogue, delightful surprises and finely tuned pacing to make this a winner." <i>—Publishers Weekly</i> (starred review.) Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2017-01-29 23:00:02. http://nh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=d8926ada-26ed-40aa-b9dd-54331c06b35f https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d8926ada-26ed-40aa-b9dd-54331c06b35f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d8926ada-26ed-40aa-b9dd-54331c06b35f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d8926ada-26ed-40aa-b9dd-54331c06b35f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)