Lydia Slaughter understands the video games males play-both in and from the bedroom. Not really afraid to flex the rules to suit her needs, she fleeces Will Blackshear outright. The Waterloo hero experienced his very own daring agenda for the video gaming furniture of London’s gentlemen’s night clubs. However now he antes up for a wager of wits and desire with Lydia, the streetwise temptress who will keep him at arm’s size. A kept woman in eager straits, Lydia has a sharpened brain and a mind for quantities. She gambles over the sly, wishing to win plenty of to claim her self-reliance. An alliance with Will in the tables may be a winning proposition to them both. But the agreement involves dicey odds with increasing stakes, sweetened with unspoken guarantee of fleshly delights. And any sleight of hands may find their hearts betting on something neither can afford to risk: appreciate.