"I am in awe of her talent."Julia Quinn

In USA Todaybestselling authorJulie Anne Longs thrilling new romance in the Palace of Rogues series, an infamous privateers limits are put to the test when hes trapped during a raging tempest with a prickly female atthe 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. Legernot 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 the Grand Palace on the Thamesonly to find greater dangers await inside.

Desperate, destitute, and jilted, Lady Daphne Worth knows the clock is ticking on her last chance to save herself and her family: an offer of a loveless marriage. But while the storm rages and roads flood, she and the rogue who rescued her must pose as husband and wife in order to share the only available suite.

Crackling enmity gives way to incendiary desireand certain heartbreak: Lorcan is everything she never dreamed shed wanted, but he can never be what she needs. But risk is childs play to St. Leger. And if the stakes are a lifetime of loving and being loved by Daphne,hell move any mountain, confront any old nemesis, to turn neverinto forever.