She is a badass queen and I absolutely adore her.

This was less a story of Grace and Ewan falling in love but rather a path of redemption for Ewan to earning Grace. I was concerned about how Sarah MacLean would redeem Ewan after the harm he did in the previous books but I should have known better. Daring and the Duke is essentially Grace’s story. The story of Ewan especially, is told over the course of the three books. This is one romance novel I would recommend reading after the previous two. 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.

Daring and the Duke by Sarah MacLean