InUSA Todaybestselling author Julie Anne Longs latest installment in thePalace of Roguesseries, a witty historical romance, an estranged couple decide to fake their way through the London season to repair their good name& but neither are prepared for the genuine sparks that begin flying between them.
A blue-blooded beauty bartered to a Beast&
He would pay any price to possess her. But even though Alexandra Bellamy sacrifices herself to save her familys fortunes, a shocking betrayal sunders her marriage of convenience to a taciturn brute of a war hero, Colonel Magnus Brightwall, before it even begins. Five years of icy separation later, a scandalwith Alexandra at the middlereunites them, and Magnus issues an edict: they will confront theton, rescue their reputations, then Magnus will banish her to another continentforever.
But alone in a suite at the Grand Palace on the Thames, a new battle beginsbetween pride and the unexpected volcanic passion stirring between them. The danger is real: Magnus rediscovers why Alexandra is the only woman who could ever break him. And even as she lays bare the beautiful heart beating beneath the battered hide of the near-stranger she married, Alexandra knows she may have already lost himeven as she finally falls fatally, irrevocably in love.
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“Smart, funny, and brimming with passion.” -Julia Quinn
“[A] lovely new episode in the Palace of Rogues series, in which the author works romance alchemy on the familiar tropes of forced proximity, opposites attract, and a fake relationship, with magical results…. A Regency romantic drama seething with emotional quakes in the vein of Lisa Kleypas.” -Kirkus Reviews?(starred review) on?How to Tame a Wild Rogue
“Long enhances her complex narration—loaded with wit, mystery, and sizzling romance—with attention to historical detail and the emotional depthl#*
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