The Lady and the Wager (The Duke's Men)

He won her family home in a card game. She intends to stay to ensure her family’s reputation and future.When wealthy Viscount Graymont wins a storied castle on the coast in a high stakes card game, he decamps to the country to claim his winnings and find solitude from his meddlesome family. Instead, he encounters the fiercely loyal Cordelia Staveley determined to persuade him to leave her home. Equally confounding, the land is entailed, though he’s confident he will prevail in that fight.Bound by a death bed promise to protect her younger siblings, Cordelia cannot afford scandal or eviction. Cordelia determines to host her family’s traditional midsummer ball to find suitors for her sisters, though the castle crumbles around them as their father gambled away their fortune.While her sister concocts creative plans to send the arrogant lord packing, Cordelia braces for a more measured approach, never expecting the handsome lord to propose ‘a little wager.’ If she wins, she’ll host her ball, if she loses, he proposes terms that may risk her pride, reputation, but worse, her heart.