When Jessabelle ran off after a fight with her tempestuous
husband, the Earl of Pennymount, she had not expected to be
kidnapped by a highwayman. Nor had she foreseen that Lord
Pennymount's displeasure, at what he assumed to be an
elopement, would lead to their divorce and her exile from
Polite Society.
But the auburn-haired beauty vowed vengeance on her harsh
ex-husband, and his upcoming wedding to the young,
scatter-brained Lady Camilla seemed the perfect opportunity.
If the idea of Jess being the hostess to one of London's
most notorious gaming club owners enraged Lord Pennymount,
imagine how much angrier he would be when be found out she
was engaged to an unreformed gambler, Lady Camilla's
brother, Adolphus!
Jessabelle knew her revenge would be sweet--if her passion
for her ex-lord did not betray her first....
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