
                
                The Beast Takes a Bride
                Palace of Rogues, Book 8
                
                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. 
              Coming October 2024!