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Release Day Review! HOW TO TAME A WILD ROGUE by Julie Anne Long (The Palace of Rogues #6)

In 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…

Series Spotlight! YOU WERE MADE TO BE MINE by Julie Anne Long (The Palace of Rogues #5)

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…

Series Spotlight! AFTER DARK WITH THE DUKE by Julie Anne Long (The Palace of Rogues #4)

Our countdown to HOW TO TAME A WILD ROGUE (here July 25th!) continues this week with AFTER DARK WITH THE DUKE, the fourth book in the Palace of Rogues series—in which Delilah and Angelique welcome England’s revered war hero, the starchy, formidable Duke of Valkirk, who is hiding out at The Grand Palace on the Thames to write his (overdue to his publisher *cough*) memoirs, and Mariana Wylde, a scandalous opera singer on the run from a mob out for her blood. The crackling enmity between these two (seeming) opposites reaches a crescendo when Mariana leads the guests in a…

Series Spotlight! I’M ONLY WICKED WITH YOU by Julie Anne Long (The Palace of Rogues #3)

I’m helping Julie Anne long count down to HOW TO TAME A WILD ROGUE, the next book in the Palace of Rogues series, coming July 25th! This week is all about Hugh Cassidy, rugged American, and Lady Lilias Vaughn, the daughter of an earl, whose worlds collide at The Grand Palace on the Thames in I’M ONLY WICKED WITH YOU! Hugh is on a mission to find another girl entirely—one with whom he was secretly love, and who bolted from America across the sea—when he stumbles upon the most beautiful girl he’s ever seen… sneaking a cheroot. He quickly learnsshe’s…

Series Spotlight! ANGEL IN A DEVIL’S ARMS by Julie Anne Long (The Palace of Rogues #2)

It’s the #countdowntowildrogue – The Palace of Rogues #6! Today we’re revisiting book 2 in the series… She was a governess, a seamstress, and a mistress—and every step of the way men preyed upon her beauty and innocence. When the Earl of Derring dies and leaves both Delilah and Angelique impoverished, Angelique is ready to stuff her pockets with rocks and wade into the Thames. But Delilah persuades her to help turn her sow’s ear inheritance—a tumble-down building by the docks—into the silk purse known as The Grand Palace on the Thames. Their unlikely friendship is at the heart of…

Series Spotlight! LADY DERRING TAKES A LOVER (The Palace of Rogues #1)

Julie Anne Long’s HOW TO TAME A WILD ROGUE, the newest addition to her Palace of Rogues series, will be here July 25th (Yay!!), and we’re kicking of our countdown with the book that launched it all, LADY DERRING TAKES A LOVER. When Delilah Swanpoole’s perfidious husband, the Earl of Derring, dies unexpectedly and leaves her—and his mistress—penniless, they form an unlikely alliance to turn her only inheritance, a tumbledown building by the London docks, into a boardinghouse called The Grand Palace on the Thames. The Palace of Rogues series is a celebration of strong female friendships, rising from the…

*Actual* 5 Star Review! AFTER DARK WITH THE DUKE by Julie Anne Long (The Palace of Rogues #4)

Sparks fly when a daring diva clashes with an ice-cold war hero in the newest thrilling romance in USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long’s Palace of Rogues series. She arrives in the dead of night, a mob out for blood at her heels: Mariana Wylde, the “Harlot of Haywood Street,” an opera diva brought low by a duel fought for her favors. But the ladies of the Grand Palace on the Thames think they can make a silk purse from scandal: They’ll restore her reputation and share in her triumph…provided they can keep her apart from that other guest.…

New Release Review! I’M ONLY WICKED WITH YOU by Julie Anne Long (The Palace of Rogues #3)

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. He’s the battle-hardened son of a bastard, raised in the wilds of New York. She’s the sheltered, blue-blooded darling of the London broadsheets, destined to marry a duke. Their worlds could only collide in a boardinghouse by the London docks…and when they do, the sparks would ignite all of England. 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. The fascination…

New Release Review and Giveaway! ANGEL IN A DEVIL’S ARMS by Julie Anne Long (The Palace of Rogues #2)

Angel in a Devil’s Arms byJulie Anne Long Series The Palace of Rogues Genre Adult Historical Romance Publisher Avon Books Publication Date October 29, 2019 From USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long comes the second book in an exciting new historical romance series, the first since her beloved Pennyroyal Green series. He has devil’s blood in his veins. At least, that’s always been the legend. How else could the Duke of Brexford’s notorious bastard son return from the dead? The brutal decade since Lucien Durand, Lord Bolt, allegedly drowned in the Thames forged him into a man who always…

New Release Review! LADY DERRING TAKES A LOVER by Julie Anne Long (Palace of Rogues #1)

A mistress. A mountain of debt. A mysterious wreck of a building. Delilah Swanpool, Countess of Derring, learns the hard way that her husband, “Dear Dull Derring,” is a lot more interesting—and perfidious—dead than alive. It’s a devil of an inheritance, but in the grand ruins of the one building Derring left her, are the seeds of her liberation. And she vows never again to place herself at the mercy of a man. But battle-hardened Captain Tristan Hardy is nothing if not merciless. When the charismatic naval hero tracks a notorious smuggler to a London boarding house known as the…