A Wager Of The Heart

Charity would do anything keep her sisters belief in true love and happy endings untainted, even confront a man who is too handsome to be anything less than a devil.

Kent is being held captive by the demands of title and position, being forced to marry a girl he's never met. He must find a clever way to escape his father's plans, even if that means wooing the girl who appears to be nothing more than the maid of his future wife.

Charity and Geraldine are sisters that are closer than any friends but different as night and day, Geri is bright and happy and concerned with all things love and happiness. Charity has been taught life's harshest lessons from an early age and has taken the care of her sister into her own hands. When the sisters, along with their father, receive word that an old friend of the family's has accepted Geraldine's offer of marriage they set off to join him on the sprawling Preston Palace estate. Home to the Earl of Preston and his son, the dashing and devilish Kent Radding. Charity is appalled to learn that Kent has no interest in her sister, even worse he has set his eyes on her.
Everything hangs on the wager that Kent strikes with Charity: Will he win her body or will Geraldine win his heart?

**Authors Note** While this story takes some queues from Victorian times, it is not strictly a period piece nor a Regency Romance... it is just a story.
The story is rated Mature for some violence and suggestive situations, nothing beyond innuendo.