The Italian Duke's Virgin Mistress

By Penny Jordan

From dowdy frump to stunning siren!

Charlotte would do anything to keep her wages coming in to support her impoverished sisters and nephews even if that meant working in Italy for the demanding and commanding Duke Raphael Della Striozzi

Raphael couldn't see how a woman so artistic would be seen dead in her cheap high street clothes. It was straight off to a designer boutique for her! But it was in Raphael's bedroom Charlotte's complete transformation took place from shy, dowdy virgin to confident, beautiful mistress!

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia
• Release date: Aug 1, 2010
• ISBN: 9781742782522

Penny Jordan

Penny Jordan, one of Harlequin's most popular authors, sadly passed away on December 31, 2011. She leaves an outstanding legacy, having sold over 100 million books around the world. Penny wrote a total of 187 novels for Harlequin, including the phenomenally successful A Perfect Family, To Love, Honor and Betray, The Perfect Sinner and Power Play, which hit the New York Times bestseller list. Loved for her distinctive voice, she was successful in part because she continually broke boundaries and evolved her writing to keep up with readers' changing tastes. Publishers Weekly said about Jordan, "Women everywhere will find pieces of themselves in Jordan's characters." It is perhaps this gift for sympathetic characterisation that helps to explain her enduring appeal.