In parallel, he allows the humanity buried deep beneath his self-protective brutality to reemerge, rekindling his social connections in a delightful sort of noble bad-boy network, and becoming more of a charming rogue by the end. But she and her sister-in-law hold their own among the pirates, and the Rook begins to view her as neither prize nor inspiring goddess, but as a person. The amnesiac stranger with whom teenage Lorelei Weatherstoke falls in love while helping him heal from a nearly fatal beating returns years later as infamous rebel called the Rook, murdering Lorelei's cruel brother in vengeance and sailing away with her as his claimed bride.
Powerhouse Byrne (The Scot Beds His Wife) plays with old-school romance tropes, providing this pirate adventure's violent, aggressive, and terrifyingly masculine hero with a rich backstory that makes him emotionally comprehensible while giving his gentle, naive partner plenty of agency and maturity in her resistance to being swept away. “Byrne is a force in the genre.”- RT Book Reviews But can she trust a man who’s been branded a rebel, a thief, and a killer? And can she trust herself to resist him when he takes her in his arms? Like a phantom, he sweeps back into her life and avenges those who wronged her. Now, after all these years, The Rook has returned. And when he left, he took a piece of her heart with him. Crippled as a child, she devoted herself to healing the poor tortured man. Lorelai will never forget the night she rescued the broken dark angel in the woods, a devilishly handsome man who haunts her dreams to this day. And who calms the restless demons in his soul… His only hope for survival-and salvation-lies in the deep, fiery eyes of the beautiful stranger who finds him.
He awakens in a mass grave, a magnificent dragon tattoo on his muscled forearm the sole clue to his mysterious origins. A man with no name, no past, no memories. These are the men who risk their hearts and their souls-for the passionate women who dare to love them… Kerrigan Byrne returns to her captivating Victorian Rebels series with the USA Today bestselling The Duke with the Dragon Tattoo.
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