Wagered By the Duke

Name: Wagered By the Duke
Author: Emma Dusk

by Emma Dusk

Genre: Romance Historical Adult

39 pages

“He wagered he could make her fall in love. He never gambled on falling himself.”

Ash Hambridge, the Duke of Ravenhurst, has felt nothing for eight years. Bored, jaded, and numb to every pleasure London can lay at his feet, he accepts a cruel wager on a sleepless dawn: five thousand pounds and a prize stallion if he can make the most invisible woman of the season fall hopelessly in love with him by the end of June. The lady is chosen at random, a name pulled blind from the pages of Debrett’s.

Miss Imogen Goodall.
In her fourth season and long since written off by the ton, Imogen has made her peace with being overlooked. She has her wit, her smuggled French novels, and absolutely no illusions about dukes. So when the most sought-after man in London begins paying court to her, she knows better than to believe a word of it.
What neither of them counts on is the truth: that when Ash looks at Imogen, the cold, gray absence inside him stirs for the first time in years. That being seen by him is the most dangerous thing that has ever happened to her. And that a courtship begun as a game has become the only honest thing in his hollow, glittering life.
But Imogen’s name is written in the betting book at White’s, beside a sum of money and a horse, and secrets like that never stay buried. When it surfaces, Ash will discover that winning the wager was never the danger he should have feared.
Losing her is.

A deliciously steamy, slow-burn Regency steamy romance, a jaded rake, an unforgettable wallflower, a wicked wager, and a love that ruins every careful plan. Yearning, spice, and a hard-won happily-ever-after.

No cheating. No cliffhangers. Just a heartwarming happily ever after.

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