MacLean can write witty banter and nice descriptions and steamy scenes and all that no problem. That said, pretty much all the scenes, taken individually, were good and enjoyable. Sometimes characters have good reason to keep them, but here, any excuse they might have had rapidly got weaker as it went along. ? ) It's also one of those that could have been a pretty short story if people had just come out with their secrets already. He's accused or questioned about both, but I'm not sure there was ever a definitive answer. Perhaps I blinked and I missed it, but I never saw confirmation whether or not the hero killed their evil father, or if he had anything to do with orchestrating the raid. (Yet still it feels like some considerable threads were left loose. This felt like it got a little bit bogged down though. The hero's love was impressive which was a lot of fun to read. I liked both of these characters and had been really interested in them since the very start of the series. But revenge requires keeping Ewan close, and soon her enemy seems to be something else altogether-something she can’t resist, even as he threatens the world she's built, the life she's claimed…and the heart she swore he'd never steal again. Unable to forgive the past, she vows to take her revenge.

Reconciliation is the last thing Grace desires. A long-ago gamble may have lost her forever, but Ewan will go to any lengths to win Grace back…and make her his duchess. Single-minded and ruthless, Ewan, Duke of Marwick, has spent a decade searching for the woman he never stopped loving. Grace has a sharp mind and a powerful right hook and has never met an enemy she could not best.until the man she once loved returns. Betrayed as a child by her only love and raised on the streets, she now hides in plain sight as queen of London’s darkest corners. Grace Condry has spent a lifetime running from her past. New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with the much-anticipated final book in her Bareknuckle Bastards series, featuring a scoundrel duke and the powerful woman who brings him to his knees.

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