This week in our Palace of Rogues countdown is YOU WERE MADE TO BE MINE: a legendary English spymaster, fresh out of a brutal French prison, is paid to track down a French princess, the runaway fiancee of a rather dastardly English earl. He finds her—and his destiny—at the Grand Palace on the Thames. it’s a story of grave danger, kismet, vengeance, treason, mistaken identity, stabbing, hidden passageways, sickbed confessions, cozy sitting rooms, and bonding over donkey races.—but above all it’s about how our jaded Hawkes and the innocent Aurelie Capet find an unexpected passion, refuge and healing with each other.
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The mission: Find the Earl of Brundage’s runaway fiancée in exchange for a fortune. Child’s play for legendary British former spymaster, Christian Hawkes. The catch? Hawkes knows in his bones that Brundage is the traitor to England who landed him in a brutal French prison. Hawkes is destitute, the earl is desperate, and a bargain is struck.
Fleeing a savagely shattered dream, the sheltered Lady Aurelie Capet finds refuge in an alias and the warmth and kindness of the Grand Palace on the Thames—until a gorgeous, mysterious disturbance to her peace literally topples through the door.
An unexpected, fierce desire that feels destined, dangerous—and devastatingly sweet—ignites between the sheltered beauty and the jaded spy, and as they slowly unravel each other’s shocking secrets Hawkes closes in on the truth about the earl. Soon it’s clear they can have no future without vanquishing the past: Hawkes knows that loving her means avenging her. Aurelie knows that loving Hawkes means freeing him to do that, no matter the cost.
