THE LEGEND OF LYON REDMOND
Pennyroyal Green #11
by Julie Anne Long
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Bound by centuries of bad blood, England’s two most powerful families maintain a veneer of civility...until the heir
to the staggering Redmond fortune disappears, reviving rumors of an ancient
curse: a Redmond and an Eversea are destined to fall disastrously in love once
per generation.
An enduring legend
Rumor has it she broke Lyon Redmond’s heart. But while many
a man has since wooed the dazzling Olivia Eversea, none has ever won her—which
is why jaws drop when she suddenly accepts a viscount’s proposal. Now London
waits with bated breath for the wedding of a decade…and wagers on the return of
an heir.
An eternal love
It was instant and irresistible, forbidden...and
unforgettable. And Lyon—now a driven, dangerous, infinitely devastating
man—decides it’s time for a reckoning. As the day of her wedding races toward
them, Lyon and Olivia will decide whether their love is a curse destined to tear
their families part...or the stuff of which legends are made.
Excerpt:
He’d last seen
Pennyroyal Green in the dead of night almost five years ago. His trajectory
since then had been as swift and mindless as if he’d been shot from a cannon.
And it wasn’t just because of what Olivia had said to him in the garden after
midnight, in the pouring rain. Though after she’d said what she’d said, for a
time he’d stopped caring what became of him.
No, that fuse had been
lit for longer than anyone knew.
No one from Sussex had
seen him since.
Though one had certainly
tried. He half smiled at the thought of Violet.
And it was this that had
broken the speed of his trajectory.
And he’d had his own
methods for remaining, however tangentially, informed about the lives of those
he’d left behind. He’d proved something over the past five years. He’d at first
thought it was all for Olivia. But he was no longer certain. He’d tried to
purge his life of her, relinquishing even her miniature.
Clearly it hadn’t
worked.
But what no one knew,
not even his crew, was that this was his final voyage. He’d risked this trip
into London to track down the source of a little mystery that could devastate
Olivia and her family.
He now had his answer.
He was, strangely, not
surprised by it.
But he hadn’t been
prepared to make a decision about what to do next so soon.
Oh, Liv, he thought.
Suddenly it hurt to
breathe. Fragments of memories rushed at him, each distinct as stained glass.
Olivia walking along the
road to the Duffys’ house, then breaking into a run when she saw him waiting
beneath the elm tree, her face lighting like a star. As if even a second away
from him was wasted.
That was the memory that
always came to him in his darkest moments.
And now she was giving
herself to another man.
His fingers curled on a
surge of emotion. But he stopped just short of giving the message the crushing
it deserved.
She. If Lavay had indeed written that word, he might have seen
her, or even talked to her, or …
He couldn’t do it.
He couldn’t bloody do
it.
And this is what decided
him.
He tucked the message
into his coat. “You can go, Ramsey,” he said. “Thank you.”
The footman spun and
nearly bolted, silver braid glinting in the sun.
Lyon turned to face all
the expectant faces of his crew.
“And we,” he told them,
“are staying in England.”
It was time for a
reckoning.
Don't forget to check out the rest of the Pennyroyal Green series!
About the Author:
Julie Anne Long originally
set out to be a rock star when she grew up, and she has the guitars and the
questionable wardrobe stuffed in the back of her closet to prove it. When
playing to indifferent crowds at midnight in dank clubs lost its, ahem, charm,
she realized she could incorporate all of the best things about being in a
band—namely, drama, passion and men with unruly hair—into novels, while at the
same time indulging her love of history and research. So she made the move from
guitar to keyboard (the computer variety) and embarked on a considerably more
civilized, if not much more peaceful, career as a novelist.
Julie lives in the San
Francisco Bay Area with a fat orange cat. (Little known fact: they issue you a
cat the minute you become a romance novelist.)
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