LADY DERRING TAKES A
LOVER
The Palace of Rogues
series
Julie Anne Long
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A mistress. A mountain
of debt. A mysterious wreck of a building.
Delilah Swanpoole,
Countess of Derring, learns the hard way that her husband, “Dear Dull Derring,”
is a lot more interesting—and perfidious—dead than alive. It’s a devil of an
inheritance, but in the grand ruins of the one building Derring left her, are
the seeds of her liberation. And she vows never again to place
herself at the mercy of a man.
But battle-hardened
Captain Tristan Hardy is nothing if not merciless. When the charismatic naval
hero tracks a notorious smuggler to a London boarding house known as the
Rogue’s Palace, seducing the beautiful, blue-blooded proprietress to get his
man seems like a small sacrifice.
They both believe love
is a myth. But a desire beyond reason threatens to destroy the armor around
their hearts. Now a shattering decision looms: Will Tristan betray his own code
of honor…or choose a love that might be the truest thing he’s ever known?
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Excerpt:
She’d taken two steps when he said, his voice
raised only a little, “Lady Derring . . . something puzzles me.”
She halted.
Closed her eyes.
Took a shuddering breath for courage.
Turned back to him. From the relatively safe
distance of three feet, she said, “Surely not. We’ve established you know
everything.”
His smile was small and patient. “You seem to
excel at so very much here at The Grand Palace on the Thames. Yet you can’t
seem to disguise how much you want me.”
About
the Author:
USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne
Long originally set out to be a rock star when she grew up (and she has
the guitars and fringed clothing stuffed in the back of her closet to prove
it), but writing was always her first love. Since hanging up her guitar for the
computer keyboard, her books frequently top reader and critic polls and have
been nominated for numerous awards, including the Rita, Romantic Times Reviewer’s
Choice, and The Quills, and reviewers have been known to use words like
“dazzling,” “brilliant,” and “impossible to put down” when describing them.
Julie lives in Northern California.
“With Lady Derring Takes a
Lover, the first in an exhilarating new series, the author’s literary
prowess is in glorious full bloom with an engaging cast of exquisitely rendered
characters, a deftly constructed plot that validates the power of hope and
love, and inexhaustible measures of dazzling wit. “
—Booklist, starred review pick
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