Review: A Game of Chance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 23, 2011
As Lady Luck controls the turn of the cards one never really knows what will happen when one emerges from the retiring room. Our down on her luck heroine viewed being mistaken for the villain's sister as just that, a simple mistake. Once that error was brought to light she was convinced she needed a little adventure in the dull and staid life she had planned. She readily agreed to a temporary role as our hero's bride in a little vignette he created to force the villain into showing himself. Believing it was all rather a lark and she'd quickly be on her way, our heroine found herself up to her lovely eyebrows in intrigue and high drama. She was  enjoying herself when she decided her good thing had come to an end and rather than be told so she took herself off to get on with her life. Flight over fight perhaps? Apparently as Lady Luck never allows her plans to be thwarted she reminded our hero that his lady's initial plans were taking her in the same direction as he and reunited our couple. As fate would have it, our heroine again misinterprets our hero's veiled nuances behind the dialogue and again takes flight. Our hero, whom we know is made of sterner stuff, tracks her down and this time makes his intentions, above her paltry objections, crystal clear. This story isn't all sunshine and heartfelt sighs. There is a very serious, very dark, and very complicated secondary story going on regarding man's inhumanity to man. Kudos to the author. A job well done.