Liana De la Rosa

A forbidden love between a Mexican heiress and a shrewd British politician makes for a tantalizing Victorian season. Ana María Luna Valdés has strived to be the perfect daughter, the perfect niece, and the perfect representative of the powerful Luna family. So when Ana María is secretly sent to London with her sisters to seek refuge from the French occupation of Mexico, she experiences her first taste of freedom far from the judgmental eyes of her domineering father. If only she could ignore the piercing looks she receives across ballroom floors from the austere Mr. Fox. Gideon Fox elevated himself from the London gutters by chasing his burning desire for more: more opportunities, more choices. For everyone. Now, as a member of Parliament, Gideon is on the cusp of securing the votes he needs to put forth a measure to abolish the Atlantic slave trade once and for all—a cause that is close to his heart as the grandson of a formerly enslaved woman. The charmingly vexing Ana María is a distraction he must ignore. But when Ana María finds herself in the crosshairs of a nefarious nobleman with his own political agenda, Gideon knows he must offer his hand as protection . . . but will this Mexican heiress win his heart as well?

Ana María and The Fox

Monserrat Navarro 

Was he treated as an outsider because be believed himself to be one?

She looked up, an unreadable expression on her face. you suppose anything outside of Europe is incapable of beauty and culture and art? That only British history, European history, is worth knowing? As if the greatness of the British Empire, the Spanish Empire. built on the backs of those they stole from. Those they pillaged from, all while they claimed to be civilizing the native people”

I had thought things would be different here. That I would be different here." Her shoulders sank. "And yet I'm still the same Ana. always wanting to please others." 

And she would keep laughing, because, Dios mío, she had earned that right, and she would not allow anyone to tell her to stop.

Have you noticed that many myths, no matter which culture they originate from, focus on love or loss or revenge?" Gideon rested his chin on the crown of her head. Why are humans so consumed with the three?"  "Because they remind us we're alive."

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