The Seduction

It was the worst day of his life. Alden Granville, Viscount Gracechurch, bet everything he owned in a card game—and lost. Miserably. His investments...gone. His beautiful ancestral estate...gone. His jewels, his weapons...all gone. His only hope is to accept his opponents' final, fateful wager: he must bed the mysterious Mistress Juliet Seton—otherwise he is well and truly ruined.Past experience has taught Juliet that romance inevitably leads to disaster. But when Viscount Gracechurch turns up in her garden—and is promptly felled by a bee sting—she can't bring herself to send him away.The sky rumbles. Darkness descends. He challenges her to a game of chess—and thus a weeklong seduction begins.