The Seduction - Julia Ross

• Author: Julia Ross
• Publisher: Berkley
• Year: 2002
• Setting: England
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BOOK DESCRIPTION

It was the worst day of his life. Alden Granville-Strachan, 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...gone. His only hope is to accept his opponent's 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...