No “best of” list is complete without a little something from Sarah MacLean who pens historical romance with one hell of a wallop. Her Bareknuckle Bastards are two brothers and a sister who survived a nightmare childhood by becoming exceptional fighters and ruthless criminals. The first two books, Wicked and the Wallflower and Brazen and the Beast, are vintage MacLean—hard-bitten alpha heroes brought to their knees and utterly destroyed—and rebuilt—by the women they love. Early buzz is that 2020’s Daring and the Duke may be her most fiercely feminist book yet.
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