And we both live in a world that judges us for all of those qualities. I never had any trouble understanding her-we both have big bodies, big personalities, and we don’t do much in half-measures. SM: Honestly, Hattie came to me nearly fully formed. How did you find your way into her story? Is there a particular scene that you feel encompasses who she is as a person, and what is your favourite thing about that scene? This book taught me that I could still write with fearlessness and the result, I hope, is a book that is, as Max Perkins liked to say, “alive from beginning to end.”ĪC: Hattie is a plus-size heroine, one of a still very small number in romance novels. With Brazen, I set out to write a book that navigated through those sticky places-to write the characters, the plot, the conflict, the sex-all as fearlessly as possible. When you start out writing, no one tells you that the craft gets more and more challenging-of course it does!-you learn to predict mistakes and pitfalls and challenges, and your instinct is to listen to those predictions and navigate around them.

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and neither of them sees that if they’re not careful, they’ll have no choice but to give up everything. She won’t give up her plans he won’t give up his power. Soon, Hattie and Whit find themselves rivals in business and pleasure.

He is more than happy to offer Hattie all she desires…for a price. When he wakes in a carriage at Hattie’s feet, Whit, a king of Covent Garden known to all the world as Beast, can’t help but wonder about the strange woman who frees him-especially when he discovers she’s headed for a night of pleasure. Everything is going perfectly…until she discovers the most beautiful man she’s ever seen tied up in her carriage and threatening to ruin the Year of Hattie before it’s even begun. But first, she intends to experience a taste of the pleasure she’ll forgo as a confirmed spinster. When Lady Henrietta Sedley declares her twenty-ninth year her own, she has plans to inherit her father’s business, to make her own fortune, and to live her own life. New York Times Bestselling Author Sarah MacLean returns with the next book in the Bareknuckle Bastards series about three brothers bound by a secret that they cannot escape -and the women who bring them to their knees.

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