After Dark with the Duke

Sparks fly when a daring diva clashes with an ice-coldwar hero in the newest thrilling romance in USA Today. bestselling authorJulie 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 theGrand Palace on the Thames think they can make a silk purse from scandal: They’llrestore her reputation and share in her triumph. provided they can keep herapart from that other. guest. Coldly brilliant, fiercely honorable, General James Duncan Blackmore, the Dukeof Valkirk, is revered, feared, desired. but nobody truly knows him. Until aclash with a fiery, vulnerable beauty who stands for everything he scorns layshim bare. It’s too clear the only cure for consuming desire is conquest, buttheir only chance at happiness could lead to their destruction. The legendary duke never dreamed love would be his last battleground. Valkirkwould lay down his life for Mariana, but his choice is stark: risk losing herforever, or do the one thing he vowed he never would. surrender.