Lady Derring Takes a Lover by Julie Anne LongMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Lady Derring Takes a Lover by Julie Anne Long is book One in The Palace of Rogues. This is the story of Captain Tristan Hardy and Delilah Swanpool, Countess of Derring.
Delilah has been pretty much sold by her family to a husband that is several years older than her, used by him as a means to get an heir. But now he is died and she is a young widow with nothing to show because her husband left her in debit. But she does find one property that she can claim that she can make into something. Delilah happens to run into her husband's former mistress to learn she too is left high and dry. They both set out to sell their jewelry and make the property into a respectable boarding house. Tristan is the Captain of the King’s Blockade and has been sent to look into smugglers one being Delilah's former husband. Now he is out to see what she knows or if there is something that he can find to lead him to answers. Both Tristan and Delilah do not believe in love, happiness but the more they get interact the more they start to think otherwise.
Enjoyed their story!
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