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When the contents of a manuscript Lydia once wrote are used against her, she faces a desperate choice: pay her blackmailer or gamble with one of the most formidable men of the era—a dangerous and aristocratic duke who offers a stake he claims is just a warning against gambling. Lydia, confident in her cunning, agrees to prove her innocence in a high-stakes card game, unaware that losing will entangle her in a web of debt, blackmail, and an irresistible, seductive lord who may turn her rebellion into his duchess.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Madeline Hunter
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