Gabriel Duke, known through London society as "the Duke of Ruin," clawed his way up from the city's lowest slums to its highest circles by sheer, ruthless will, and now he wants the crumbling townhouse next door. Its owner, Lady Penelope Campion, has other plans: her home is a menagerie of rescued creatures, from a two-legged dog to a foul-mouthed parrot to a very opinionated goat, and she isn't giving any of them up without a fight.
Penny strikes a bargain: she'll clear the house of her animals if Gabriel can find every one of them a loving home first. He agrees, certain it'll be easy, and certain that a respectable lady neighbour will only raise the property's value once he's ready to sell. But placing a two-legged dog and a foul-mouthed parrot proves harder than expected, and so does staying immune to Penny's warmth, which keeps finding the parts of him he thought were unreachable.
The third novel in Tessa Dare's New York Times bestselling Girl Meets Duke series, The Wallflower Wager is a witty, tender Regency romance about a man who measures everything in profit, and the woman who teaches him what's actually worth keeping.