In USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long''s latest installment in the Palace of Rogues series, an estranged couple decide to fake their way through the London season to repair their good name... but neither the Lord nor Lady are prepared for the genuine sparks that begin flying between them. War hero Magnus Gunn, also known as Lord Brightwall, knows how to get what he wants. So when a wild scandal erupts with his estranged wife, Alexandra, at the center, he issues an ultimatum: the five year long icy yet civil separation between the couple ends now. He wants to repair his family name. The two will confront the London season together and convincingly fix the Brightwall reputation, and then he will send her to live in New York, a continent away, where she''ll be free to live as she chooses. But alone in a suite at The Grand Palace on the Thames, a new battle begins: between pride, and the unexpected, volcanic passion stirring between them. The danger is real: Magnus rediscovers why she''s 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 him--even as she finally falls fatally, irrevocably in love.

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USA Today bestselling author and Rita® Award winner Julie Anne Long’s books have been translated into eighteen languages, nominated for numerous awards, and have appeared on dozens of “Best of” lists. NPR named her Pennyroyal Green series as one of the Top 100 romance series of all time. She currently lives in Northern California.

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In USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long’s latest installment in the Palace of Rogues series, 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 family’s fortunes, a shocking betrayal sunders her marriage to a taciturn brute of a war hero, Colonel Magnus Brightwall, before it even begins. Five years of icy separation later, a scandal—with Alexandra at the middle—reunites them, and Magnus issues an edict: they will confront the ton, rescue their reputations, then Magnus will banish her to another continent—forever. 

But alone in a suite at the Grand Palace on the Thames, a new battle begins—between 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 him—even as she finally falls fatally, irrevocably in love.