By Eloisa James
"*Welcome to a global of reckless sensuality and glittering sophistication . . . of dangerously good-looking gents and younger girls longing to achieve a name . . . of video games performed for top stakes, including—on occasion—a lady's virtue.*
A marquess's sheltered in simple terms daughter, girl Roberta St. Giles falls in love with a guy she glimpses throughout a crowded ballroom: a duke, a online game participant of consummate ability, a infamous rakehell who indicates no real interest in marriage—until he lays eyes on Roberta.
Yet the Earl of Gryffyn is familiar with too good that the cost required to achieve a coronet is usually too excessive. Damon Reeve, the earl, is set to guard the beautiful Roberta from chasing after the inaccurate destiny.
Can Damon attract her right into a high-stakes online game of his personal, whether his middle might be misplaced within the venture?
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