When you gamble at love .

When Hugh Deveraux discovers his newly inherited earldom is bankrupt, he sets on the subject of rebuilding the family fortune-in the video gaming hells of London. But the most daring wager he will take isn’t at credit cards. A rich tradesman makes a tantalizing present: marry the man’s spinster child and Hugh’s bills will become paid and his fortune made. The only catch is that she must under no circumstances know about their agreement . . .

You risk losing your heart . . .

Heiress Eliza Mix has given up hope of marriage until she matches the impossibly handsome Earl of Hastings, her father’s new business partner. The earl is definitely everything a gentleman should be, and it is boldly attentive to her. It generally does not take long for Eliza to lose her heart and marry him.

However when Eliza discovers that there is more to the person she loves-and to her marriage-her trust is shattered. And it’ll take all of Hugh’s power to prove that today his phrases of like are real . . .