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Series
Scandalous brides novels volume 1
Language
English
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Widow Diane Benchley returns to London to open an exclusive gentleman's club and asks Oliver Warren, the Marquis of Haybury, with whom she shared a private indiscretion years earlier, to teach her how to run her business.
Author
Series
Sinful suitors volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"To root out the card cheat responsible for her brother's death, Miss Delia Trevor spends her evenings dancing her way through high society balls, and her late nights disguised as a young man gambling her way through London's gaming hells. Then one night, handsome Warren Corry, the Marquess of Knightford, a notorious member of St. George's Club, recognizes her. When he threatens to reveal her secret, she's determined to keep him from ruining her plans,...
23) Red on the river
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Vienna Mortenson isn't your typical gambler. She prefers to stay under the radar, using her poker winnings to support her family and her community, including the local search and rescue team, which she heads up. Out in the backcountry there's no time for hesitation when lives are on the line. Vienna prides herself on being tough and decisive. She's not the sort to make a fool of herself over a guy, especially one who left her high and dry without...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"When failed magician turned cardsharp Valen Quinol is given the chance to play in the Forbearance Game--the invitation-only tournament where players gamble with secrets--he can't resist. Or refuse, for that matter, according to the petty gangster sponsoring his seat at the table. Valen beats the man he was sent to play, and wins the most valuable secret ever staked in the history of the tournament. Now Valen and his motley crew are being hunted by...
Author
Series
Merriwell sisters volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"For years, Galahad Sinclair has been working diligently to find the perfect location for his ultimate gaming club. Now three Covent Garden townhouses owned by the late Mrs. Leyton-Brown have come on the market, and Gal is able to negotiate a killer deal for the properties. There is just one little problem—the last townhouse on the block is owned by the Covent Garden Asylum for Orphans. Upon learning that Mrs. Leyton-Brown verbally promised one...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Some people join chess club, some people play football. Jack Shannon runs a secret blackjack ring in his private school's basement. What else is the son of a Las Vegas casino mogul supposed to do? Everything starts falling apart when Jack's mom is arrested for their family's ties to organized crime. His sister Beth thinks this is the Shannon family's chance to finally go straight, but Jack knows that something's not right. His mom was sold out, and...
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Sebastian, Duke of Hasford, has a title, wealth, privilege, and plenty of rakish charm. Until he discovers the only thing that truly belongs to him is his charm. An accident of birth has turned him into plain Mr. de Silva. Now, Sebastian is flummoxed as to what to do with his life - until he stumbles into a gambling den owned by Miss Ivy, a most fascinating young lady, who hires him on the spot. Working with a boss has never seemed so enticing. Two...
Author
Series
Manley maids volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Berkley Sensation mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
When three sexy brothers lose a bet to their enterprising sister, they are hired and sent out for her housecleaning venture, and first up is entrepreneur Sean Manley, who must deal with a client who happens to be a feisty young woman who has inherited a historic mansion.
Author
Series
Hellions of Halstead Hall volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Mired in scandal after his parents' mysterious deaths, notorious gambler Lord Jarret Sharpe agrees to tamely run the family brewery for a year if his Machiavellian grandmother rescinds her ultimatum that he marry. But the gambler in him can't resist when beguiling Annabel Lake proposes a wager. If she wins their card game, he must help save her family's foundering brewery. But if he wins, she must spend a night in his bed. The outcome sets off a chain...
Author
Publisher
Red Dress Ink
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Delilah "Baby" Sampson has had her share of addictions. Her latest is Jimmy Choos shoes, but on her salary, $700 a pair is a stretch, which leads to another obsession: gambling. Baby hits the casinos and discovers that she's a natural-born high-roller. Every win puts her closer to those beloved Choos. And as the '21s' keep dropping, so do the men, right at her feet. But for a girl who never knows when to fold'em, gambling and casino guys are not healthy...
32) Pronto
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Series
Language
English
Description
"The feds want Miami bookmaker Harry Arno to squeal on his wiseguy boss. So they're putting word out on the street that Arno's skimming profits from 'Jimmy Cap' Capotorto--which he is, but everybody does it. Harry was planning to retire to Italy someday anyway, so he figures now's a good time to get lost. U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens knows Harry's tricky--the bookie ditched him once in an airport while in the marshal's custody--but not careful. So Raylan's...
33) Luck is no lady
Author
Series
Fallen ladies volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gently bred Emma Chadwick always assumed she'd live and die the daughter of a gentleman. But when her father's death reveals a world of staggering debt and dangerous moneylenders, she must risk her good name and put her talent for mathematics to use, taking a position as bookkeeper at London's most notorious gambling hell. Surrounded by vice and corruption on all sides, it is imperative no one discovers Emma's shameful secret or her reputation-and...
34) High stakes
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Logan Tanner lives the exhilarating life of a professional gambler, taking risks with nerves of steel. From casinos in Macau to Monte Carlo to Milan, he's racked up a fortune and become a living legend. But all the glitz and glamour hide a dark and violent past as an extractor -- a world that comes rushing back to him when the beautiful and innocent Lara Balkon enters his life. Soon Logan is drawn into the conflict between two Russian mafia bosses...
35) Random
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Two weeks before his twenty-first birthday, Las Vegas native Bobby Ingersoll finds out he's inherited a crushing gambling debt from his scumbag father. The debt is owed to an even scummier bag named Fraser Ruphart who oversees his bottom-rung criminal empire from the classy-adjacent Trump International Hotel. Bobby's prospects of paying off the note, which comes due the day he turns twenty-one, are about as dim as the sign on the tower's façade....
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English
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Handsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from amateur "whales" who think they can challenge his peerless acumen at backgammon. Fronted by his pasty, vampiric manager, Edgar Falk, Bruno arrives in Berlin after a troubling run of bad luck in Singapore. Perhaps it was the chance encounter with his crass childhood acquaintance Keith Stolarsky and his smoldering girlfriend Tira Harpaz. Or perhaps it was...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1975, and Ronnie Breed's chart-topping rock band has just self-destructed in a recording studio fistfight. Ronnie makes a bold decision--return home to Texas and reinvent himself as a solo act. Enter Dan Campbell, Ronnie's cousin, who recruits Ronnie for a new kind of venture. Dan, who always had a penchant for wild schemes, wants to televise a Texas Hold 'Em tournament...and Ronnie could never say no to his cousin Dan. As celebrity spokesman...
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