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    The French Maid
    The French Maid
    The French Maid
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    The French Maid

    By Sabrina Jeffries

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    Lady Eleanor Langston has a problem: her husband Henry, prime-minister-in-the-making, is too caught up in his work to notice her. Despite her involvement in his various public appearances, she feels shut out of his life, especially with their one-year anniversary looming. When Henry hires a highly recommended French lady’s maid without consulting her, Eleanor’s anger can't be contained—until she meets her. With Babette’s help, Eleanor arms herself with the one weapon that will make Henry notice her as a woman—her inner siren.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPocket Star
    Release dateApr 10, 2012
    ISBN9781451698107
    The French Maid
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    Sabrina Jeffries

    Sabrina Jeffries is the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of several Regency-set historical romance series, including the Royal Brotherhood, the School for Heiresses, the Hellions of Halstead Hall, the Duke’s Men, and the Sinful Suitors. When she’s not writing in a coffee-fueled haze, she’s traveling with her husband, caring for her adult autistic son, or indulging in one of her passions: jigsaw puzzles, chocolate, music, and costume parties. With more than nine million books in print in twenty languages, the North Carolina author never regrets tossing aside a budding career in academics for the sheer joy of writing fun fiction and hopes that one day a book of hers will end up saving the world. She always dreams big.

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    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this short story. However, I didn't care for the excerpt from her upcoming book that is at the end. I didn't finish it. It just didn't grab my attention.
    • 3/5
      I got this book free on kindle. It was just okay a busy husbands ignores his wife and a French maid tries to make their marriage better over a short amout of time. If I had to pay for it I would had been really dissapointed. I can't really complain about a big author giving a free book though.

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    The French Maid - Sabrina Jeffries

    The French Maid

    Sabrina Jeffries

    When Lady Eleanor Ruskin first agreed to marry Lord Langston, prime-minister-in-the-making, her mother warned her that Henry’s true mistress was England and always would be. Eleanor laughed and remarked, Then he’d best dismiss his mistress, for I shall not share him.

    Now, after a year of marriage, she recognized Mama’s wisdom … and her own foolishness. A man like Henry didn’t relinquish his duty for something as trivial as a wife. The most she could hope for was to help him perform it.

    A pity she was quite horribly in love with him.

    Eleanor glanced over to where her handsome husband dipped his spoon into his dish of sorbet with the same economy of movement she’d admired when she first met him. Henry knew how to squeeze fifty activities out of an hour and had taught her to do the same. But despite joining him in his various public appearances, reform activities, and political meetings, she felt shut out of his life. Indeed, this was the first evening in two weeks that they’d dined together at home.

    Did he remember that their wedding anniversary was two days away? Knowing Henry, she doubted it. Her birthday had come and gone with nary a notice. She’d made excuses for him, swallowed her disappointment, and marched forward like a good little soldier. Marching was becoming her most accomplished skill.

    He caught her gaze on him and cast her that toothy smile that never failed to melt her, even if he did bestow it on everyone who moved into his orbit. You did very well today at the hospital dedication. The directors all congratulated me on having found a wife with such devotion and intelligence.

    Not to mention astounding beauty, she murmured, remembering how drab she had appeared beside the other wives, with her unmanageable hair and her plain looks.

    That remark sailed over Henry’s head. She didn’t know which was worse—that Henry didn’t notice her lack of beauty and fashion sense or that he didn’t care. After all, he hadn’t married her for her appearance but her connections, for Papa’s position as Home Secretary and Mama’s stellar blood lines.

    By the way, I have a surprise for you, he said.

    She brightened. You did remember!

    He looked perplexed. Remember? What was I supposed to remember?

    An acute pain settled in her belly. She ignored it and pasted a smile on her face. Nothing. What’s the surprise?

    "Now that your lady’s maid has gone off to get married, I’ve hired you a replacement—Babette something or other. She’s French and comes highly recommended by Lord Waveney. He said she’d surprise us with her uncanny abilities—whatever

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