The Essex Sisters · Book 3
The Taming of the Duke
- Published
- 1 January 2006
- Pages
- 398
- ISBN-13
- 9781585478293
- Type
- novel

About this book
The Taming of the Duke, published in 2006 at 398 pages, is the third entry, continuing the sisters' contrasting personalities and opinions on love that thread through the family series.
Its place in The Essex Sisters
The Taming of the Duke is book 3 in the The Essex Sisters series. It follows Kiss Me, Annabel. It is followed by Pleasure for Pleasure. See the full The Essex Sisters reading order.
The Essex Sisters follows a close-knit set of Regency sisters as each navigates the marriage mart in her own distinct way. Much Ado About You (2005) opens the series, followed the same year by Kiss Me, Annabel, then The Taming of the Duke and Pleasure for Pleasure (both 2006). A Gentleman Never Tells, published a decade later in 2016, returned to the same family to close out the series with a fifth entry. As with several of James's family-centered series, the sisters' shared household and each other's opinions on…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781585478293
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780060781583
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780061212765