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The Iron Rose
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 5 2026
Pages: 386
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Ironbridge Gorge, where smoke curls through the valley and fortunes are forged in fire, Rose Vernon knows her future is not her own. With her family's estate crumbling, she is expected to secure its survival the only way she can - through marriage to a man of her father's choosing.
But her heart belongs to Sebastian Clayton.
Ambitious, unyielding, and determined to build his own legacy, Sebastian is everything her world rejects. Where others inherit power, he forges it. And for one reckless, fleeting moment, they dare to believe that love might be enough.
When their secret is discovered, the consequences are swift and brutal.
Sebastian vanishes without a word, and Rose, heartbroken and abandoned, is forced into a marriage she never wanted to a man whose cruelty knows no bounds.
Ten years later, Rose is trapped in a gilded cage, her spirit nearly broken. When Sebastian returns to the Gorge, he is no longer the boy she loved but a man of power, control, and carefully guarded secrets - with a wife of his own. Yet the moment he sees the woman who has haunted his dreams for a decade, he knows something is terribly wrong.
Thrown together once more, the past begins to unravel, dragging buried secrets into the light.
And the truth is not what either of them believed.
They were not abandoned. They were betrayed by those they trusted the most. Now Sebastian must make an impossible choice: rescue the woman he has never stopped loving from a marriage that is killing her, or lose the empire he has spent a decade building.
Step into a sweeping tale of passion and betrayal set against the smoke and steel of Victorian England, where love and ambition collide, and the past demands its reckoning.
A sweeping historical Victorian romance saga of devastating loss, cruel deception, and enduring love.
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