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After reading over 1000 books, I've read this one several times, & enjoyed it more each time. Good plot - mystery, intrigue, suspense, a twist or two.
Interesting characters & development; secondary characters,too. Excellent sex scenes; not too graphic, but sensual & teasing. All in all, this one is a keeper, but it's too good not to share.

The love scene with the massage oil is wicked hot!

Lady Madeline de Lacy, one of the most powerful women in England, is struggling to hold her family together following her gambler father's catastrophic loss at cards. When she learns that he has gambled away her hand in marriage and is planning to stake her most precious heirloom in the Game of the Century, she takes drastic action. She switches places with her cousin and companion, Eleanor, and heads to The Game disguised as a companion herself. Eleanor, in turn, agrees to see Madeline's new fiance and break the engagement. Madeline is accustomed to running her life and the lives of those around her, so posing as a lady's maid proves to be a challenge, especially when she discovers her former fiance, Lord Gabriel, at the party. Now she must maintain her ruse even as she's drawn to the man she jilted four years earlier.

A good romance.

Good Read.

Although Lady Madeline de Lacy is one of the most powerful women in England, she is unable to change the fact that her father has gambled away her hand in marriage. Determined to remain a free woman, Madeline persuades her cousin and companion Eleanor to switch identities with her and travel to another high-stakes card game in order to break off the engagement. However, presenting herself as the traveling companion to a rich and powerful woman presents several challenges for Madeline--especially after she learns that her former fiance, the delectable Lord Gabriel is at the game.

Madeline de Lacy, the duchess of Magnus, is a hoot. Not quite as on top of things as she'd like to think, she has a disfunctional gambler of a father, a quiet and competent companion (who will, I think, be the heroine of the next book), a history of getting into trouble while trying to "fix" things, and a fiance from four years back who has never been able to get her out of his mind. This is a good romp.

This regency has a different and fun storyline. Cover is silver, not white.

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

great read!