So he decides to move into the same hotel as Cleo. Cleo intervenes and decides to invest in the business.

So Cleo goes to a costume store where she quickly finds out that the store was “sold” to an American businessman who wants to move the business to the US. When we meet her, she has decided that she wants to be a wallflower as she would like to enjoy life as an on-the-shelf spinster so she can manage her water-closet business. But unlike the noblemen at her feet, he doesn't belong in her refined and cultured world.Ĭaught between the demands of honor and desire, Jake would give up everything to be with the woman he loves-if she'll have him!īook Review: How to Be a Wallflower by Eloisa JamesĬleo is an eccentric heiress who has spent most of her childhood following an actor’s troupe throughout England. It isn't until Cleo becomes the toast of all society that Jake realizes she's stolen his fiercely guarded heart. And somehow in the middle of their lively competition, Jake becomes her closest friend. Cleo can't resist the fun of clothing the rough-hewn American in feathers and flowers.

Jake strikes a devil's bargain, offering to design her “wallflower wardrobe” and giving Cleo the chance to design his. He's furious when a she-devil masquerading as an English lady steals Quimby's Costume Emporium from under his nose. Powerful and charismatic Jacob Astor Addison is in London, acquiring businesses to add to his theatrical holdings in America-as well as buying an emerald for a young lady back in Boston. But since she has no intention of marrying, she visits a costume emporium specifically to order unflattering dresses guaranteed to put off any prospective suitors. Miss Cleopatra Lewis is about to be launched in society by her aristocratic grandfather.

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