title: The Gamble
author: Wolf, Joan
description: Gentle Reader,
  
  It's not that I approve of blackmail, but sometimes survival takes precedence over virtue. Unfortunately, the Earl of Winterdale has not proved to be quite the sort of victim I had envisioned. To be honest, I find that my heart is in far more danger from the handsome earl than he is endangered by my nefarious schemes.
  
  All I ever wanted was a home for my sister and me, but I fear Winterdale is about to exact a price of his own, one I'm not ready to pay. Or am I? Where he is concerned, I'm far too vulnerable.
  
  Damn.
  
  Hero: Lord Philip Winterdale
  Heroine: Georgiana (Georgie) Newbury