Book #8

Start with Lady Derring Takes a Lover. He would pay any price to possess her. But even though Alexandra Bellamy sacrifices herself to save her family's fortunes, a betrayal sunders her marriage to a brute of a war hero, Colonel Magnus Brightwall, before it even begins. Five years of 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. But alone in a suite at the Grand Palace on the Thames, a new battle begins-between pride and the unexpected passion stirring between them. The danger is real: Magnus rediscovers why Alexandra is the only woman who could ever break him. And even as she lays bare the heart beating beneath the battered hide of the near-stranger she married, Alexandra knows she may have already lost him-even as she finally falls fatally, irrevocably in love.