Grace and Ewan's story! One of tragedy, cruelty, hope and love--the greatest of all!
Daring and the Duke (Bareknuckle Bastards #3) by Sarah MacLean
Another fantastic addition to the series that has had us all howling for more.
What's not to love! My heart was in my mouth time and again as the story of Ewan and Grace played out. Oh, I knew it was going to be an HEA but the getting there is magnificent.
For years Ewan the ‘Mad’ Duke of Marwick has been punishing Devil and Whit (Beast) because they didn't keep Grace safe. She’d died. Except she hadn't. Her brothers-in-arms (make that bastard-brothers-in-arms) were protecting her.
Now, Ewan is the one who might need protection because he'd almost killed Whit’s wife, and had killed men they protected in his mad desire, nay focused commitment to punsihing them.
When we last saw the group, Grace Condry or rather Dahlia had taken Ewan captive, as part of a vow the three had made to take revenge on Ewan for nearly killing them and forcing them to flee so many years ago to the life they had now. A life that went from bare knuckled "Fighters. Criminals. [to] Kings of Covent Garden." And Dahlia was the Queen. Together they ruled the area around Covent Gardens providing a degree of safety for their people. All that doesn't lesson their vow by one iota.
Dahlia is now the successful owner of a Woman's Club hidden deep in the bowels of the Gardens, a place where women can do and be as they please, with lavish entertainment, surroundings, and unbidden desires met.
But now all that is being threatened by the Mad Duke and others.
Of course when Ewan and Grace begin a long slow dance towards understanding there's nothing graceful about that journey. There's a surfeit of passion, of lust, and a raging fire of desire. But how that might work out is contentious and impenetrable.
Both Grace and Ewan need hope to carry them through and the four bastards need redemption and forgiveness for and with each other. And that part is the most difficult, almost a lost cause.
A fitting conclusion to the Bastards stories.
A HarperCollins ARC via NetGalley
*****
What's not to love! My heart was in my mouth time and again as the story of Ewan and Grace played out. Oh, I knew it was going to be an HEA but the getting there is magnificent.
For years Ewan the ‘Mad’ Duke of Marwick has been punishing Devil and Whit (Beast) because they didn't keep Grace safe. She’d died. Except she hadn't. Her brothers-in-arms (make that bastard-brothers-in-arms) were protecting her.
Now, Ewan is the one who might need protection because he'd almost killed Whit’s wife, and had killed men they protected in his mad desire, nay focused commitment to punsihing them.
When we last saw the group, Grace Condry or rather Dahlia had taken Ewan captive, as part of a vow the three had made to take revenge on Ewan for nearly killing them and forcing them to flee so many years ago to the life they had now. A life that went from bare knuckled "Fighters. Criminals. [to] Kings of Covent Garden." And Dahlia was the Queen. Together they ruled the area around Covent Gardens providing a degree of safety for their people. All that doesn't lesson their vow by one iota.
Dahlia is now the successful owner of a Woman's Club hidden deep in the bowels of the Gardens, a place where women can do and be as they please, with lavish entertainment, surroundings, and unbidden desires met.
But now all that is being threatened by the Mad Duke and others.
Of course when Ewan and Grace begin a long slow dance towards understanding there's nothing graceful about that journey. There's a surfeit of passion, of lust, and a raging fire of desire. But how that might work out is contentious and impenetrable.
Both Grace and Ewan need hope to carry them through and the four bastards need redemption and forgiveness for and with each other. And that part is the most difficult, almost a lost cause.
A fitting conclusion to the Bastards stories.
A HarperCollins ARC via NetGalley
*****
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