After Dark with the Duke: The Palace of Rogues [Paperback]

Sparks fly when a daring diva clashes with an ice-cold
war hero in the newest thrilling romance inUSA Todaybestselling author
Julie Anne Long’s Palace of Rogues series.

She arrives in the dead of night,
a mob out for blood at her heels: Mariana Wylde, the “Harlot of Haywood Street,”
an opera diva brought low by a duel fought for her favors. But the ladies of the
Grand Palace on the Thames think they can make a silk purse from scandal: They’ll
restore her reputation and share in her triumph...provided they can keep her
apart from thatotherguest.

 

Coldly brilliant, fiercely honorable, General James Duncan Blackmore, the Duke
of Valkirk, is revered, feared, desired...but nobody truly knows him. Until a
clash with a fiery, vulnerable beauty who stands for everything he scorns lays
him bare. It’s too clear the only cure for consuming desire is conquest, but
their only chance at happiness could lead to their destruction.



The legendary duke never dreamed love would be his last battleground. Valkirk
would lay down his life for Mariana, but his choice is stark: risk losing her
forever, or do the one thing he vowed he never would...surrender.
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“Delightful...refreshing. Readers will enjoy this rich depiction of how the past informs but does not dictate the future.”  -Publishers Weekly for Angel in a Devils Arms

“Deploying her usual perfectly calibrated mix of irresistibly dry wit and superbly nuanced characterization, RITA Award-winning Long adds another winner to her Palace of Rogues series with this lushly sensual, exquisitely emotional, and gracefully written tale about two people desperately trying not to fall in love with each other.” -Booklist (starred review) for Angel in a Devils Arms

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