Rake's Wager

the long version

Cassia Penny runs a fashionable gaming house in Regency London. Her inspired style has always set the fashion…which is just the sort of talent Richard Blackley needs. Blackley is a self-made millionaire, determined to establish himself as a proper London gentleman. When Cassia loses a wager, he collects by demanding her services to refurbish his decrepit estate�but finds her beauty the most gracious adornment his home could have. Now, as she transforms the old house, she transforms Richard, as well. The unlikely pair are drawn together�until an old secret from Richard's past reappears. Will it tear them apart…or unite them forever?