Fiction. Romance. Historical Fiction. HTML:A Lady and the Scoundrel Romance (#3)
From Romantic Times Career Achievement Award Winner and New York Times bestseller Victoria Thompson, a sensual tale of historical romance in the American West...
"Ms. Thompson imbues her characters with strength, eloquence and dignity." –Romantic Times
THEY GAMBLED ALL THEY HAD ON THE PROMISE OF EVERLASTING LOVE
Raising her son on her own, fiery Suzanna Prentice isn't going to give up her hopes for a good life. So she takes a job as a dancehall girl in Dodge City's roughest saloon to pays the bills, though vulgar remarks from the drunken patrons wear on her spirit...until one passionate glance from a handsome gambler sets Suzanna's blood racing with hope...and burning desire.
When fate and a gunman's bullet place the gorgeous gambler in Suzanna's tender loving care, a bond blossoms between the widow and her gambler, a tenderness neither one can deny. As Suzanna vows to heal the gambler's wounds, as well as his lonely heart, she falls head first into his secret world of danger...and the head-spinning, euphoric promise of everlasting love...