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Dreadful Temptation

Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller

Dreadful Temptation

Dreadful Temptation

Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller

Xenie Carroll has been jilted, discarded by the man she loved, and now she wants blood. Not his blood, but his ruin. She plots her revenge with cold precision, convinced that justice demands payment for the wound he inflicted. But here is the cruelest trick of desire: each opportunity to destroy him arrives wrapped in temptation, in doubt, in the ruinous pull of the feelings she swore she'd killed. As Xenie navigates a world where every ally might be a traitor and every scheme might backfire, she discovers that vengeance is a maze designed by one's own wounded heart. McVeigh Miller constructs a fever dream of melodrama, where improbable coincidences pile upon shocking revelations, where the line between victim and villain blurs, and where the reader is left breathless, wondering not if the revenge will succeed, but whether it should. This is the original category romance: messy, passionate, morally complex, and utterly unputdownable.

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Jilted by the man she loves, Xenie Carroll has determined that no matter the cost she will exact the ultimate revenge on...

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