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How to Tame a Wild Rogue
How to Tame a Wild Rogue: The Palace of Rogues | Julie Anne Long
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In USA Today bestselling author 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 the Grand Palace on the Thames--only 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 desire--and certain heartbreak: Lorcan is everything she never dreamed she'd wanted, but he can never be what she needs. But risk is child's play to St. Leger. And if the stakes are a lifetime of loving and being loved by Daphne, he'll move any mountain, confront any old nemesis, to turn "never" into forever.
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What a wonderful addition (6th) to this series!! Lorcan is a man who has made his way from the slums of St. Giles (sometimes legally, sometimes not) to owning his own ship as a fearsomely respected privateer. After an unorthodox first meeting with Daphne (a Lady trying to save her family from financial ruin), they end up concocting a fake marriage to share a suite at The Grand Palace on the Thames during a week of flooding weather. As Daphne 🔻

robinb begins to see the good underneath Lorcan‘s brawny, scarred exterior, Lorcan admires but is exasperated by Daphne‘s self-sacrifice for her family. As they grow closer, the difference in their stations/future expectations becomes more apparent. This entire series is such a treat (as is ANYTHING Long writes). From her humor, her endearing and fully-fleshed out characters, her original storylines and her swoon-worthy romance, 🔻 (edited) 2y
robinb she has all the bases covered and then some. This story was an especially sweet one (but of course with some 🔥). I find Long‘s writing not as “typical” for this genre. Many of her passages are poetic and deeply emotional/felt…and not just on the romance side. She NEVER disappoints. Recommended. 5/5⭐️ 2y
jdiehr I love her writing style! My Romance Book Club picked book 3 for us to read (they are choosing books from series' they read a while ago), and it is the only book that I ordered the rest of the series. You're right about Long not being "typical." 2y
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robinb @jdiehr I really like that about her. She‘s not the standard historical romance author. Have you read her Pennyroyal Green series? If not, you should try it…really good as well…I need to do a reread as that one is an older series. There are 11 in that series. 2y
jdiehr @robinb No, I haven't read that series. Thanks for the recommendation 😊 2y
robinb @jdiehr 👍😉 2y
julesG You did not just recommend a new series to me?! 🙈🙈🙈 #MountTBR 😁 2y
robinb @julesG Who, ME??!! 😂😂😂 Never! 2y
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Started an ARC of Julie Anne Long's next book last night. I absolutely love her banter.
And I'm over half way done listening to my current audiobook. The author is narrating and he's very engaging.