A Wicked Wager, Adele Clee
A Wicked Wager, Adele Clee
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A Wicked Wager

Author: Adele Clee

Narrator: Liisa Ivary

Unabridged: 7 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Adele Clee

Published: 11/20/2018


Synopsis

Two lonely people discover that true love doesn’t have to be perfect.The gentleman makes a wager.When his brother dies mysteriously, Devlin Drake seeks revenge on the lady whose lies have tarnished his family's name. Determined to make her pay, he concocts a devious plan to wed her. He’ll win her hand in a bet. But as Devlin schemes to make her his bride, a surprising twist of fate changes everything. He’s tricked into marrying her sister.A surprise announcement. Miss Juliet Duval, the illegitimate daughter of Baron Bromfield, was taken into the lord’s house after the death of her mother. The baron finds her an embarrassment, and her half-sister’s jealous tirades see Juliet banished to the role of servant. That is until her father makes a foolish wager and needs a daughter to satisfy his debt.An unsuitable match.Thrown together in an odd twist of fate, Devlin and Juliet are mismatched in every regard. He is a hulking figure of a man, powerful, commanding. She is dainty and petite, used to obeying her father, and despising of masterful men. Yet both quickly become what the other needs and together must battle against those determined to tear them apart.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Debbie

I really enjoyed this I just love when a man falls in love with a woman and prove he her and cherishes her. I love when a best is tamed, and while he was never really a beast he definitely was tamed. I loved the honesty between them and how there wasn't a big misunderstanding to ruin the story. But t......more

*little disclaimer I have been in the biggest reading slump of my life since the end of august… it lasted for about two months and was absolutely awful… fortunately around the end of october I finally got out of it and got back to reading more like I am used to :) unfortunately I still don’t want to......more

3.5 stars rounded up Devlin (H) has been away from England for several years and by the time he returns, his brother has died and Devlin is obsessed with getting revenge for his brother's ruined reputation, going as far as to make a wager hoping to marry the woman responsible so he can make her miser......more