A Novel Engagement: The Gentlemen's Gamble

He bet he could make her fall in love with him. She has every intention of making him lose.

When sharp-tongued Cecily Ashford discovers that the insufferably charming Lord Weston made a very public wager about winning her affections, she doesn't storm off in tears. She counter-proposes a fake engagement—let *him* squirm under society's scrutiny while she exposes every hollow charm he possesses.

It's the perfect plan. Until it isn't.

Forced into each other's company at every ball, dinner, and country house party the Season demands, Cecily and Weston discover something far more dangerous than mutual contempt: they actually *see* each other. Behind her brittle wit is a woman who learned long ago that men like him never stay. Behind his effortless confidence is someone who has never once been chosen for the right reasons.

The gamble was supposed to be simple. Neither of them expected to stop keeping score.

*A Novel Engagement: The Gentlemen's Gamble* is a sparkling Regency romance about two people too clever for their own good, a wager with consequences neither anticipated, and the terrifying moment when pretending stops feeling like pretending at all.

Because the real gamble was never about winning society's game.

It was about being brave enough to lose your heart on purpose.