When Beauty Tamed the Beast / Eloisa James / 374 pages / R. T. Reviewer's Choice Award

This was a most enjoyable adult fairy tale. I loved the cover!!  Linnet Berry Thrynne is rumored to be pregnant because of her reaction to a bad prawn and her unfortunate ballgown.  It made her appear to be with child.  The scandal causes her father to send her to Wales to become the wife of Piers Yelverton, Earl of Marchant, and heir to the Duke of Windebank.  Unfortunately, Piers has no intention of marrying.  He has never forgiven his father for his opium addiction and for divorcing his mother and ruining her reputation.  Rude Dr. Piers is patterned after Dr.Gregory House on TV, from limp to problematic behavior.