In USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long's thrilling new
romance in the Palace of Rogues series, an infamous privateer's limits
are put to the test when he's trapped during a raging tempest with a
prickly female at the Grand Palace on the Thames.
He clawed his way up from the gutters of St. Giles to the top of a
shadowy empire. Feared and fearsome, battered and brilliant, nothing
shocks Lorcan St. Leger--not even the discovery of an aristocratic woman
escaping out a window near the London docks on the eve of the storm of
the decade. They find shelter at a boarding house called the Grand
Palace on the Thames--only to find greater dangers await inside.
Desperate, destitute, and jilted, Lady Daphne Worth knows the clock is
ticking on her last chance to save herself and her family: an offer of a
loveless marriage. But while the storm rages and roads flood, she and
the rogue who rescued her must pose as husband and wife in order to
share the only available suite.
Crackling enmity gives way to incendiary desire--and certain heartbreak:
Lorcan is everything she never dreamed she'd wanted, but he can never be
what she needs. But risk is child's play to St. Leger. And if the stakes
are a lifetime of loving and being loved by Daphne, he'll move any
mountain, confront any old nemesis, to turn "never" into forever.
