Beautiful Deborah Grantham, mistress of her aunt\'s elegant gaming house, must find a way to restore herself and her aunt to respectability, preferably without accepting either of two repugnant offers.
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Max Ravenscar, uncle to her young suitor, comes to buy her off, an insult so scathing that it leads to a volley of passionate reprisals, escalating between them to a level of flair and fury that can only have one conclusion...
One is from an older, very rich and rather corpulent lord whose reputation for licentious behavior disgusts her; the other from the young, puppyish scion of a noble family whose relatives are convinced she is a fortune hunter.
Beautiful Deborah Grantham, mistress of her aunt\'s elegant gaming house, must find a way to restore herself and her aunt to respectability, preferably without accepting either of two repugnant offers
