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In a debut romance as passionate and sweeping as the British Empire, Meredith Duran paints a powerful picture of an aristocrat torn between two worlds, an heiress who dares to risk everything...and the love born in fire and darkness that nearly destroys them. From exotic sandstone palaces... Sick of tragedy, done with rebellion, Emmaline Martin vows to settle quietly into British Indian society. But when the pillars of privilege topple, her fiancé's betrayal leaves Emma no choice. She must turn for help to the one man whom she should not trust, but cannot resist: Julian Sinclair, the dangerous and dazzling heir to the Duke of Auburn. To the marble halls of London... In London, they toast Sinclair with champagne. In India, they call him a traitor. Cynical and impatient with both worlds, Julian has never imagined that the place he might belong is in the embrace of a woman with a reluctant laugh and haunted eyes. But in a time of terrible darkness, he and Emma will discover that love itself can be perilous -- and that a single decision can alter one's life forever. Destiny follows wherever you run. A lifetime of grief later, in a cold London spring, Emma and Julian must finally confront the truth: no matter how hard one tries to deny it, some pasts cannot be disowned...and some passions never die.
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Man, a substacker i subscribe to recommended this book to her readers so I had high expectations. Now I infer she doesn’t read much romance 😪 head to Julie Ann Long and read a PROPER romance please!!!! Firstly, I was uncomfortable with the pale british woman in India, unsure if the indian characters were being fetishized/villainized despite the author making the hero half indian half british. The romance itself was cringey? Felt like a love at first sight (never interesting.) with the tension of a broken rubber band. Oh you guys are gonna kiss in a dark hallway the third time meeting? Oh you’re gonna have sex under the stars? The second half got better because obstacles were introduced into their relationship…but still was just supposed to root for them when so never believed in them the first place? That ship wreck origin story though, INTENSE!