title: The Rome Affair
author:  Laura Caldwell 
description: "A fabulous, hypnotic psychological thriller. This book blew me away, and Caldwell is a force we can't ignore." -- <i>New York Times bestselling author Stella Cameron</i><br /><br />"The smooth first-person narrative builds suspense and paints a fine picture of time and place." -- <i>Publishers Weekly on Look Closely</i>
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  USA TODAY bestselling author
  
  
  Pamela Palmer transports you to another world as two enemies must unite on a
  
  
  deadly mission….
  
  
  Single dad Harrison Rand craved
  
  
  vengeance only for the harm the evil Esri race had inflicted on his young
  
  
  daughter. But now that he found himself the sole guardian of the Esrian
  
  
  princess Ilaria, exacting his revenge wasn’t the simple task he’d thought it
  
  
  would be.
  
  
  Because Ilaria—despite her cold
  
  
  beauty and royal entitlement—was like no Esri he’d encountered before. With
  
  
  a simple act of kindness, the princess made him question everything he
  
  
  thought he knew about her race. And to save his own from total annihilation,
  
  
  he needed her compassion and her power to seal the gates between their
  
  
  worlds forever. To save his soul, he found himself needing only her
  
  
  love.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Ilaria stared at him, her heavy-lidded expression stunned and confused.
  
  
  Her mouth was swollen and damp from his kisses, a perfect rosy-pi