<i>Can the Ladies&rsquo; Wagering Whist Society help a young woman with a dark secret allow light and love into her heart?</i><br />Lydia Sheffield is always laughing, always joking, always charming, always surrounded by adoring gentlemen. She wants to enjoy the season, and not yield to Regency society&rsquo;s expectation that she quickly marry and have children. She also has a secret lurking within her&mdash;one that will keep her from ever taking a risk on love.<br />Lord John Welles has a secret of his own, but Lydia has discovered it. She noticed what no one else did, that this attractive, upstanding gentleman is filching diamonds from unsuspecting ladies. Lydia extracts a price for her silence&mdash;a fake engagement to her for the season. John never expected to want to make the arrangement real, nor that Lydia would be so dead-set against it. There&rsquo;s something she&rsquo;s not telling him, and he&rsquo;s determined to find out what it is.<br />Can John discover Lydia&rsquo;s secret in time to save his heart from breaking? He&rsquo;ll need to convince her to take a chance on love, on life&hellip; and on him.