Shamed for her curves and plagued by a Mean Girl, Bea is miserable--until she triumphs over social disaster and wins the hand and heart of a duke. One of Eloisa James's most exuberant and emotional novellas.
Miss Beatrice Valentine is having a horrible first Season, shamed for her curves by Lady Regina Haywood.
Despite Regina's attempts to make Bea a wallflower, Bea finds herself torn between Regina's fianc