He’s wagering his inheritance. She’s wagering her future. Mrs. Dove-Lyon wants them to wager something far more dangerous.

Lady Georgiana Hawthorne has spent her life keeping the peace—managing her father’s anxieties as he props up a crumbling estate, and never, ever causing trouble. When he arranges her marriage to a man three times her age, she finally breaks. She flees to London and the notorious Lyon’s Den, where Mrs. Bessie Dove-Lyon’s infamous matchmaking games offer something she has never dared reach for: a future of her own choosing.

But the Den holds a ghost. Tom Blakey—the boy who once looked at her as though she hung the moon—stands across the room, older, harder, and achingly handsome. With him comes the guilt she has never outrun. The night everything fell apart, and she let him believe a lie—because the truth would have cost him everything.

Now revealed as the legitimate son of Viscount Worthington, Tom must marry well before his birthday, and he has no plans to forfeit his inheritance—or his heart. Georgiana, with her noble bloodline, should be the perfect solution…but she is also the woman who shattered him. The one he has never been able to forget.

Georgiana’s played by the rules her whole life and lost everything that mattered. Now Mrs. Dove-Lyon is asking her to wager the one thing she has left—her heart.

Tropes you’ll enjoy:

• Second chance romance
• Best friend’s little sister
• Betting on a Partner