The Beast Takes a Bride

In USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Longs 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 familys 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 scandalwith Alexandra at the middlereunites them, and Magnus issues an edict: they will confront the ton, 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.