num_pages: 485
description: Tough and tender, sweet and sassy, here is a story of honesty and humour for anyone who has ever lived and loved. Scott Gandy has always been a gambling man, relying on his lazy Southern charm to smooth a way out of difficult situations. Hoping to make his fortune, he opens a saloon in Proffitt, Kansas. But he soon becomes a target of the prohibition movement, led by the owner of the hat shop next door to his establishment – the enchanting yet volatile Agatha Downing.The saloon keeper and the prim and proper milliner are hopeless adversaries… until the innocence of a child opens their eyes and hearts to each other.
language: English
title: The Gamble
titlecomplete: The Gamble
characters: Scott Gandy, Agatha Downing
genres: Fiction, Historical Romance, Historical, Chick Lit, Historical Fiction, Americana, Romance, Adult, Westerns, Western Romance
ratings_count: 3430
places: Kansas
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Golden Medallion by Romance Writers of America
category: Best Historical Romance
publisher: Harper Collins