* www.eloisajames.com www.piatkus.co.uk www.piatkusbooks.net * Reviews anticipated in woman's magazines and national press *Promote with Kiss at Midnight (August) *Author has strong Facebook following (16,000)

'Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than Eloisa James' - Julia Quinn

Miss Linnet Berry Thrynne is a Beauty . . . Naturally, she's betrothed to a Beast.

If only her gown hadn't been so fully cut, or she hadn't been caught kissing that prince . . . But now the ton believes Linnet 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 Linnet's devilishly smart and charming with a loveliness that outshines the sun, there will be no wedding of beauty to beast.

Still, Linnet finds the gorgeous brute intriguing, with a spark of gentility behind his growl that's worth fanning. And it's obvious to the naked eye that 'incapable' does not mean 'uninterested'...

'Eloisa James is extraordinary' - Lisa Kleypas

'Romance writing does not get much better than this' - People

"Eloisa James's writing is absolutely exquisite" - Teresa Medeiros

"A breathtaking addition to James's series of reimagined fairy tales... [A] funny, offbeat, deliciously sensual story that takes the famed fairy tale to a new level with its vivid description and exquisite writing" - Library Journal

"With an amusing cast of characters and two principals who are both beautiful and beastly at times, this is an enrapturing bedtime story" - Bookpage

"There are only a handful of romance authors who could have written a touching, fun, and engaging story by blending a fairytale and a television show. Eloisa James is obviously one of them" - The New York Journal of Books

"Treat yourself to a fairy tale that will keep you enchanted from 'once upon a time' til 'they lived happily ever after'" - The Romance Dish on A Kiss At Midnight

"[This] delightful tale is as smart, sassy and sexy as any of her other novels, but here James displays her deliciously wicked sense of humor" - Romantic Times BOOKClub on A Kiss at Midnight