{"product_id":"bought-by-the-baron-n-viktoria-9798281553001","title":"Bought By The Baron: A Steamy BWWM Interracial Multicultural Enemies to Lovers Scottish Highlands Historical Romance","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat happens when research crosses the line between scholarship and desire?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEleanor: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI needed money to save my father's life. That's why I took the job with Baron MacKenzie. His ad said he needed someone who knew about ancient rituals-and who would help \"demonstrate\" them. I knew what that meant. I just didn't know how it would make me feel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen I first saw Magnus, with his battle scars and intense eyes, something stirred inside me. He offered triple what any university would pay. All I had to do was help with his \"research\"-skin against skin, bodies aligned just like in the ancient texts. It was supposed to be clinical. Scientific. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut the first time his hands touched me, I knew there was nothing clinical about the heat building between us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMagnus: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince Crimea, pain has been my constant companion. Doctors couldn't help. My only hope lay in forgotten knowledge-ancient healing rituals that required two bodies moving as one. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI never expected Dr. Eleanor Winters. Brilliant, beautiful, with knowledge of traditions from both our cultures. I hired her for her brain. I told myself our \"demonstrations\" were purely academic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat a lie that was. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen she stands naked in the moonlight, covered in ritual markings, I forget all about research. When she moves beneath me, her body taking mine so perfectly, the pain finally stops. But something else grows in its place-something far more dangerous than physical desire. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow her former professor threatens everything we've discovered-including the feelings neither of us expected in our strictly professional arrangement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe contract that brought us together never mentioned falling in love. But some things can't be contained by words on paper-especially when two bodies have learned how perfectly they fit together. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTheir contract specified research. Their bodies demanded more. BOUGHT BY THE BARON will leave you breathless and begging for your own private \"demonstration.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e N. Viktoria\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798281553001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/26\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 534\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.08d","brand":"N. Viktoria","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48113903698175,"sku":"9798281553001","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_af28a3c9-3516-4668-a127-931facb959ed.jpg?v=1769617874","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bought-by-the-baron-n-viktoria-9798281553001","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}