The Missus
a passionate and thrilling love story by the global bestselling author of the Fifty Shades trilogy
Published on 20. June 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-1-80494-696-1 (ISBN)
Description
The follow-up to the No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller The Mister, a passionate and thrilling love story from E L James, author of the phenomenal bestselling Fifty Shades Trilogies.
Alessia regards her husband through heavy-lidded eyes.
You'll have to fight for him. Her mother's words from their call this morning ring through her head. And fight, she will. Using every available weapon she has.
She loves him. She knows this. She wants him.
And she wants him to want her.
What happens once the glass slipper fits...?
Maxim Trevelyan, reluctant Earl of Trevethick, has pursued the woman he loves to the wilds of Albania. Having fought for and won her, he now has to wed her, at the sharp end of a shotgun.
But can a reformed rake like Maxim ever make a good husband - or will his own notorious reputation and the scandalous secrets of his aristocratic family destroy his new-found happiness?
Alessia Demachi has defied and outwitted kidnappers and traffickers, and won the heart of the man she loves, but can she make this marriage work? Confronted by Maxim's lurid past, his forbidding family, and the looks and whispers of London's elite, will she ever be seen as Maxim's countess - or will she always be his former cleaner?
From the majestic mountains of Albania, through the rural idyll of the English countryside, to the shady glamour of contemporary London, The Missus is a spellbinding journey of love, longing, acceptance and redemption.
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Readers can't stop talking about The Missus . . .
***** 'I'm tickled pink to not only have found my favourite book in The Missus but also as it currently stands, my top read of this year. Without a shadow of a doubt.'
***** 'I loved the first book so much that I was scared of starting this one in case it didn't live up to my expectations. But it did!'
***** 'Once again I devoured an E L James book. I just didn't want to put it down.'
***** 'I could not put it down!! Love the characters and the reality of story. Both books kept me enthralled.'
***** 'I can't give any less than 5 stars'
Alessia regards her husband through heavy-lidded eyes.
You'll have to fight for him. Her mother's words from their call this morning ring through her head. And fight, she will. Using every available weapon she has.
She loves him. She knows this. She wants him.
And she wants him to want her.
What happens once the glass slipper fits...?
Maxim Trevelyan, reluctant Earl of Trevethick, has pursued the woman he loves to the wilds of Albania. Having fought for and won her, he now has to wed her, at the sharp end of a shotgun.
But can a reformed rake like Maxim ever make a good husband - or will his own notorious reputation and the scandalous secrets of his aristocratic family destroy his new-found happiness?
Alessia Demachi has defied and outwitted kidnappers and traffickers, and won the heart of the man she loves, but can she make this marriage work? Confronted by Maxim's lurid past, his forbidding family, and the looks and whispers of London's elite, will she ever be seen as Maxim's countess - or will she always be his former cleaner?
From the majestic mountains of Albania, through the rural idyll of the English countryside, to the shady glamour of contemporary London, The Missus is a spellbinding journey of love, longing, acceptance and redemption.
_____________
Readers can't stop talking about The Missus . . .
***** 'I'm tickled pink to not only have found my favourite book in The Missus but also as it currently stands, my top read of this year. Without a shadow of a doubt.'
***** 'I loved the first book so much that I was scared of starting this one in case it didn't live up to my expectations. But it did!'
***** 'Once again I devoured an E L James book. I just didn't want to put it down.'
***** 'I could not put it down!! Love the characters and the reality of story. Both books kept me enthralled.'
***** 'I can't give any less than 5 stars'
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Cornerstone
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
323 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80494-696-1 (9781804946961)
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E. L. James
The Missus
a passionate and thrilling love story by the global bestselling author of the Fifty Shades trilogy
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06/2023
Penguin (Cornerstone)
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After 25 years in TV, incurable romantic E L James decided to pursue a childhood ambition - writing stories. Her first published novel, the provocative Fifty Shades of Grey, smashed sales records worldwide, topping the New York Times bestseller list for 133 weeks. Together with its sequels Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed, and the companion trilogy Grey, Darker and Freed, it went on to sell more than 160 million copies in over 50 languages.
One of Times magazine's "Most Influential People of the Year" and Publisher's Weekly's "Person of the Year", E L James was a producer on all of the Fifty Shades movies, which together made more than a billion dollars at the box office.
Fifty Shades Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award 2012 and Fifty Shades of Grey was voted one of the 100 Great Reads by PBS's The Great American Read in 2018. Darker was long-listed for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award, and James' romance, The Mister, once more topped bestseller charts around the world. She followed it up in 2023 with the USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling sequel The Missus.
E L James lives with her husband, the screenwriter and novelist Niall Leonard, and their two beloved dogs in leafy west London.
One of Times magazine's "Most Influential People of the Year" and Publisher's Weekly's "Person of the Year", E L James was a producer on all of the Fifty Shades movies, which together made more than a billion dollars at the box office.
Fifty Shades Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award 2012 and Fifty Shades of Grey was voted one of the 100 Great Reads by PBS's The Great American Read in 2018. Darker was long-listed for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award, and James' romance, The Mister, once more topped bestseller charts around the world. She followed it up in 2023 with the USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling sequel The Missus.
E L James lives with her husband, the screenwriter and novelist Niall Leonard, and their two beloved dogs in leafy west London.