The Beast Takes a Bride

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 scandalwith Alexandra at the middlereunites them, and Magnus issues an edict: they will confront the ton, rescue their reputations, then Magnus will banish her to another continentforever. 

But alone in a suite at the Grand Palace on the Thames, a new battle beginsbetween pride and the unexpected volcanic 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 beautiful heart beating beneath the battered hide of the near-stranger she married, Alexandra knows she may have already lost himeven as she finally falls fatally, irrevocably in love.