One Night is Never Enough

Roman Merrick rules London's underworld. He is powerful, ruthless and used to getting what he wants, and what he wants is Charlotte Chatsworth, a polished figure of the city's high society. He sets a trap through her father, a gambler buried in debt, and proposes a wager: ten thousand pounds against one night with his daughter. Roman has never lost a game.

Charlotte learns that her reckless father has staked her in a card game and lost her to the most dangerous man she has ever met. Ruin threatens her from every side, and she takes a risky path with a man she cannot put out of her mind.

The stakes cut both ways. Roman began the game purely for pleasure, and now it puts his heart in play. The passion he did not plan for could bring down the dark empire he has built.

This is a historical romance between a society daughter and a criminal lord, set among the gaming tables and drawing rooms of London. It leans on a forced bargain, a dangerous attraction and a hero with far more to lose than he first assumed.