03539cam a2200337 4500 1506856015 TxAuBib 20240821120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781420154887 1420154885 B0C9VZD43G Amazon f02772cb-c444-4429-b147-6aa463a332c2 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9951544 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Riley, Vanessa. A Gamble at Sunset [Libby]. Zebra Books, 2024. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 853kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. African American Fiction. Romance. Historical Fiction. HTML:<b>Award-winning author Vanessa Riley turns all convention on its head for the first in an enchanting, dazzlingly diverse new Regency romance trilogy featuring a duke, three sisters, and a tantalizing bet with a most desirable reward...</b><br /> <b>"A triumphant return to romance...Riley renders the Regency in living color, with impressive historical detail and an admirably diverse cast. Historical romance readers will be entranced." —<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, STARRED REVIEW<br /> "The perfect historical read." —Julia Quinn, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author</b><br /> <i>When a duke discovers the woman he loves was tricked into marrying another, the master chess player makes the now-widowed viscountess the highest-stakes wager of his life in a last-ditch effort to win her affection: he will find husbands for her two sisters—or depart forever...</i><br /> Georgina Wilcox, a wallflower with hidden musical talents, is furious when her reclusive older sister—the recently widowed viscountess—refuses sorely needed help from the Duke of Torrance, the only gentleman who has shown kindness to the bereft Wilcox sisters. Georgina decides to get back at her sister and shock the viscountess by kissing the first willing stranger she meets in the enchanting gardens of Anya House. Unfortunately, her sister is not the sole witness. A group of reporters and the ton's leading gossips catch Georgina in a passionate embrace with a reticent composer, Lord Mark Sebastian.<br /> The third son of an influential marquis, the tongue-tied Mark is determined to keep the scandal from ruining Georgina's reputation and his own prospects of winning the celebrated Harlbert's Prize for music. Under the guise of private voice lessons, the two embark on a daring gamble to fool the ton into believing that their feigned courtship is honorable while bolstering Georgina's singing genius to captivate potential suitors. Sexist cartoons, family rivalries, and an upcoming ball test the fake couple's resolve. Will their sudden fiery collaboration—and growing attraction—prove there's nothing false about a first kiss and scandalously irresistible temptation? Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-08-21 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f02772cb-c444-4429-b147-6aa463a332c2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f02772cb-c444-4429-b147-6aa463a332c2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f02772cb-c444-4429-b147-6aa463a332c2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)