And Sarah MacLean is one of those authors. I’m an avid reader of historical romances, forever drawn to a world where dashing rogues fall head over heels in love with intrepid damsels, but few authors continue to amaze me with the way they engage so purposefully with female identity, body norms, and sexuality in their stories, rather than merely accept the traditionally accepted. and neither of them sees that if they’re not careful, they’ll have no choice but to give up everything. She won’t give up her plans he won’t give up his power. Soon, Hattie and Whit find themselves rivals in business and pleasure. He is more than happy to offer Hattie all she desires…for a price. When he wakes in a carriage at Hattie’s feet, Whit, a king of Covent Garden known to all the world as Beast, can’t help but wonder about the strange woman who frees him-especially when he discovers she’s headed for a night of pleasure. Everything is going perfectly…until she discovers the most beautiful man she’s ever seen tied up in her carriage and threatening to ruin the Year of Hattie before it’s even begun. But first, she intends to experience a taste of the pleasure she’ll forgo as a confirmed spinster. When Lady Henrietta Sedley declares her twenty-ninth year her own, she has plans to inherit her father’s business, to make her own fortune, and to live her own life.
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