A woman who becomes a gambling prize discovers that nothing is more
seductive, or dangerous, than love...
When her father auctions her off to pay his gambling debts, Melissa
Seacourt vows that she will be no man's bought bride. Desperate to
escape her fate shackled to someone she could never love, Melissa
instead is forced to honor and obey the seductive stranger who comes to
her rescue.
Purchasing a wife for 20,000 guineas wasn't the end game Nicholas
Barrington envisioned when he walked into the notorious Newmarket
gambling club. But the innocent Melissa arouses much more than his
protective instincts. It will take all of Nick's skill and daring to
best a cunning adversary hellbent on his destruction. With two lives now
hanging in the balance, Nick's playing for the highest stakes of all:
his future with the woman who won his heart.