About Hugh’s stunning gentleness, depth, and courage. Hugh’s proposal salvages Lillias’s honor but kills their dreams for their futures.until they arrive at a plan that could honorably set them free.īut unraveling their entanglement inadvertently uncovers enthralling truths: about Lillias’s wounded, tender heart and fierce spirit. And the inevitable indiscretion? Soul-searing-and the ruination of them both. Nothing can stop Hugh Cassidy’s drive to build an American empire.unless it’s his new nemesis, the arrogant, beautiful, too-clever-by-half Lady Lillias Vaughn. Their worlds could only collide in a boardinghouse by the London docks.and when they do, the sparks would ignite all of England. She’s the sheltered, blue-blooded darling of the London broadsheets, destined to marry a duke. He’s the battle-hardened son of a bastard, raised in the wilds of New York. USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long continues her Palace of Rogues series with a brand-new romance about an ambitious American and a headstrong British heiress.
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