She had one hand of cards left to win back the last piece of her mother — and when she lost, the most dangerous man in London didn’t ask for money. He asked for a year of her.
But Eleanor Vance lost that hand on purpose.
They call him the duke out of the gutter. Marcus Kane was born over a gin shop, clawed his way up to own London’s most notorious gaming hell, and then had a dukedom fall on him by sheer accident — a title the whole of proper society would sooner see burned than bow to. He is the most powerful, and most despised, man in the city. And a clockmaker’s daughter has just walked into his private room and wagered herself against her father’s debt.
He believes he’s won a year of quiet obedience. What he has actually let into his house is a card sharp with a secret, a plan, and every intention of ruining him.
There’s only one problem. The devil in the stories was supposed to be cruel. This one keeps saving her instead.
By the time Eleanor understands that the man she came to destroy has been quietly protecting her family for three years, she is already holding the one weapon that could hang him — and she no longer wants to use it. But a promise signed in another woman’s desperation does not vanish because a heart has changed its mind. When the truth arrives before she can confess it, Eleanor will have to lay down the one card she has kept in reserve her whole life… and gamble everything on a duke who has sworn he can never trust her again.
A slow-burn Regency romance about a scandalous, gutter-born duke, the cunning heroine who came to burn him, and the single wager that undoes them both. She came to ruin a duke. She may just end up his duchess.
Enemies to lovers • Marriage of convenience • Forced proximity • Morally grey duke • Clever heroine • Class difference • Slow burn • Closed door
No cheating. No cliffhangers. A guaranteed happily-ever-after. 💛
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⏱️ Chapters (preencha os timestamps reais depois de renderizar)
0:00 — Part 1: One Hand of Cards
7:32 — Part 2: The House on the Quiet Square
13:23 — Part 3: A Game She Shouldn’t Play
19:44 — Part 4: The Drawer
25:58 — Part 5: What She Never Told Him
34:10 — Part 6: Ashcombe’s Regards
39:23 — Part 7: Read My Hands
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