Her Vexing Viscount
by Ada Rowe
A widow who swore off men. A rake who has never lost a bet. Sixty days to see who breaks first.
After four suffocating years as the wife of a controlling earl, Lady Ismay Vane has everything she fought for: her own fortune, her own Mayfair townhouse, and a prized stretch of Thames riverfront. She has two rules. Never remarry. Never give a man power over her again.
Then Valentine Hesketh, Viscount Braxfield, corners her at a masquerade. He's a notorious gambler who has never lost a bet, and he needs her riverfront to save his family. When her brother loses a fortune at his gaming tables, Valentine proposes a scandalous wager: win one night in his bed before Midsummer, and the property is his. Fail, and he forfeits everything.
Ismay accepts, certain she can't be touched. But this rake doesn't use force or flattery. He argues, he listens, and he will not kiss her until she asks.
In a game where surrender costs everything, the only way to win might be to lose.
HER VEXING VISCOUNT is a steamy, open-door Regency romance with a guaranteed happily ever after. Book 1 in the Scandals of the Season series of standalone romances.