In USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long's latest installment in the Palace of Rogues series, a witty historical romance, an estranged couple decide to fake their way through the London season to repair their good nameā¦ but neither are prepared for the genuine sparks that begin flying between them.
A blue-blooded beauty bartered to a Beastā¦
He would pay any price to possess her. But even though Alexandra Bellamy sacrifices herself to save her family's 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 scandalāwith Alexandra at the middleāreunites them, and Magnus issues an edict: they will confront the ton, rescue their reputations, then Magnus will banish her to another continentāforever.
But alone in a suite at the Grand Palace on the Thames, a new battle beginsābetween 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 himāeven as she finally falls fatally, irrevocably in love.