Why am I passionate about this?
I have loved the Regency for decades. I cut my teeth on it as a young reader, and it’s been exciting to see the genre expand to include all types of stories from manner-driven drawing room dramas that highlight the nuances of the era to seductive, sexy stories that simply take place during those years, to stories that draw heavily on the events of the era to design unique and exciting historical plots. The diversity within the genre reflects the diversity of life and experience during the Regency. I have tried to capture a little of each across the 70+ books I’ve written for Harlequin, Mills, and Boon and in my own reading.
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Why did Bronwyn love this book?
This book, by Julie Anne Long, is also from her Palace of Rogues series. It is also a great example of layering. However, it is also a subtle allegory about celebrity and the power of attraction.
The hero is a man of great renown who has escaped to the hotel for peace and quiet in order to write his memoirs. He is high profile and has a pristine reputation for morality. The heroine is also well known in her own, less pristine circles and is not necessarily known for the better. She is an utter scandal and the last sort of woman the duke ought to be attracted to on the grounds of her reputation.
This is a clash of worlds in a less traditional sense—it's not just about who has a title and good birth and who doesn't. This book is so much deeper, so much better…
2 authors picked After Dark with the Duke as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
Sparks fly when a daring diva clashes with an ice-cold war hero in the newest thrilling romance in USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long's Palace of Rogues series.
She arrives in the dead of night, a mob out for blood at her heels: Mariana Wylde, the "Harlot of Haywood Street," an opera diva brought low by a duel fought for her favors. But the ladies of the Grand Palace on the Thames think they can make a silk purse from scandal: They'll restore her reputation and share in her triumph...provided they can keep her apart from that other guest.…