num_pages: 233
description: The infamous rake Lord Richard Hamilton has finally chosen his bridethe very appropriate Miss Emma Grey.The ton approves Lord Grey is pleased Lady Grey delighted and Emma is over the moon but her uncle (the blasted) Duke of Arden opposes the match and Emma is ordered to move to the dukes estate to think things over.Richard Hamilton refuses to take things lying down and concocts a plan. A plan that should have brought the lovers together and had them married within a month. It was a simple matter of masquerading as the dukes gardener compromising the lady and then having the duke rush them off to Gretna Green.Alas he underestimates the dukes intelligence and the tangled situation on the estatenever had he imagined that compromising a lady could be so difficult.His endeavours lead to a comedy of errors charades and knotty love affairs. Yet he forges ahead in spite of pesky house guests a flea bitten mattress his lovesick best friend and a blackmailer.Just when things seem to be going well someone is murdered (very inconvenient) and he happens to be one of the suspects (extremely inconvenient).His simple plan for winning the wager suddenly becomes  a tad complicated.
language: English
title: The Wicked Wager
publisher: Kindle