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Informationen zum Autor New York Times bestselling author CHRISTINA DODD builds worlds filled with suspense, romance, and adventure, and creates the most distinctive characters in fiction today. Her fifty novels have been translated into twenty-five languages, featured by Doubleday Book Club, recorded on Books on Tape for the Blind, won Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart and RITA Awards, and been called the year's best by Library Journal . Dodd herself has been a clue in the Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle. Klappentext Wagered--and lost--by her nobleman father in a card game! Madeline must marry a stranger. The only one who can help her is a man she hoped never to see again--her former fianc! Gabriel. But Gabriel vows to win back forever the heart of the only woman he could ever love. Original. Zusammenfassung Two exquisite cousins must exchange identities in a scandalous deception. Madeline de Lacy! the duchess of Magnus! prides herself on being one of the most sensible young women in England! which is why she can't believe that! in a turn of the cards! her noble father has lost his entire estate -- and her! -- to a stranger. On a mission to salvage her family fortune! she changes places with her cousin and companion! sending the meeker Eleanor to confront the man who had won Madeline's hand. Now! Madeline is free to enter the home of a notorious gambler! and pretends to be meek! humble! and competent with an iron. She is! of course! none of those things; she simply is resolved to win her family's fortune back. Just when she thinks matters can't get worse! she meets Gabriel Ansell! the earl of Campion! and they do. Horribly worse. Four years ago! Madeline was engaged to Gabriel! and worshipped his arrogant kisses. Now! being forced to marry a man she doesn't know pales in comparison to the ordeal of facing Gabriel again! the man who betrayed her -- Gabriel! the only man she ever loved. ...
