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Release Day Review! THE BEAST TAKES A BRIDE by Julie Anne Long (The Palace of Rogues #8)

Published by beckymmoe on 10/22/2024

In USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long’s latest installment in the Palace of Rogues series, an estranged couple decide to fake their way through the London season to repair their good name… but neither are prepared for the genuine sparks that begin flying between them. 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 family’s 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 scandal—with Alexandra at…

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Cover Reveal! THE BEAST TAKES A BRIDE by Julie Anne Long is coming this October!

Published by beckymmoe on 05/17/2024

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 family’s 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 scandal—with Alexandra at the middle—reunites them, and Magnus issues an edict: they will confront the ton, rescue their reputations, then Magnus will banish her to another continent—forever. But alone in a suite at the Grand Palace on the Thames, a new battle begins—between pride and…

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Release Day Review! MY SEASON OF SCANDAL by Julie Anne Long (The Palace of Rogues #7)

Published by beckymmoe on 04/23/2024

In USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long’s latest installment in the Palace of Rogues series, a notorious rake meets his match in a doe-eyed girl from the country, changing the course of both of their futures… A London season is the chance of a lifetime for Catherine Keating. But the ton’s glitter and decadence and casual cruelty threaten to crush her hopes of finding a husband before her season even begins…until she accidentally acquires one of the most scandalous men in England as a secret chaperone. Famously fiery Lord Dominic Kirke can hold the House of Commons—and any woman…

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

Published by beckymmoe on 07/25/2023

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…

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

Published by beckymmoe on 07/19/2023

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…

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

Published by beckymmoe on 07/13/2023

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…

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

Published by beckymmoe on 07/05/2023

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…

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

Published by beckymmoe on 06/29/2023

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…

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

Published by beckymmoe on 06/22/2023

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…

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

Published by beckymmoe on 08/03/2022

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.…

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