Wicked Wager
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3.3 • 9 Ratings
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
When hardened gamester Marcus Revington wins Horngate Manor in a card game, he's delighted to finally own property, and undeterred when he learns he must marry the heiress of the estate to claim it.
The heiress, Penny Montgomery, is happy with her life raising horses at Horngate and has no desire to wed anyone. When she discovers what her guardian has done, she comes up with a scheme to convince Marcus she's unsuitable as a wife so he'll give up his plan to marry her.
Who will win in this battle of wits and wills? Or will they both discover the name of the game is love?
Customer Reviews
Thoroughly Enjoyable
Penny is as high-spirited as the horses she breeds at her precious Horngate estate. But since women cannot own property during this period in English history, she is at the mercy of her reckless male cousin who loses the place in a high-stakes card game. Worst, as part of the bet, Penny must also marry the winner and new owner of her home.
Marcus is a professional gambler. Winning Horngate gives him the respectability he has always craved. Being forced to marry a supposedly naive, country lass in order achieve it is a tolerable necessity until he meets the fiery, independent woman who will soon undermine his best-laid plans in order to keep her home, her horses, and her freedom.
These two scheming and likable characters will soon experience the delicious turmoil that love is about to have on their lives.
An engaging Regency romance.
Thoroughly enjoyable.
Mary Gillgannon never disappoints.