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New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with a blazingly sexy, unapologetically feminist new series, Hell's Belles, beginning with a bold, bombshell of a heroine, able to dispose of a scoundrel-or seduce one-in a single night.Īfter years of living as London's brightest scandal, Lady Sesily Talbot has embraced the reputation and the freedom that comes with the title. |