The Beast Takes a Bride

After five years of being married in name only, Alexandra Bellamy’s husband has returned from his service in Spain. Colonel Magnus Brightwall finds the wife he left behind in Newgate prison, incarcerated for her role in one of her cousin’s wild schemes. Alexandra was supposed to live a quiet, lonely life to atone for her betrayal on their wedding night. Now Magnus has returned to protect his—and her—reputation before exiling Alexandra to New York City. While they pretend to be happy and respectable at society events, when they are behind closed doors in their rooms at the Grand Palace on the Thames, both Alexandra and Magnus are surprised to find they may want to fight for their marriage instead of abandoning it. Listeners will be delighted that Justine Eyre, an early narrator of Long’s “Palace of Rogues” novels, has returned to narrate this eighth entry (following My Season of Scandal) in the beloved historical romance series.