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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