A Wicked Wager

Avenging Lords, Book 2

By: Adele Clee

Narrated by: Liisa Ivary

Two lonely people discover that true love doesn’t have to be perfect.

The gentleman makes a wager.

Devlin Drake is out for revenge. Since his brother’s mysterious death, the cruel and devious Miss Bromfield has taken to spouting vicious lies, spreading vile gossip - and he vows to make her pay. How better to punish the lady than to make her his wife? A lifetime of misery is what she deserves. Knowing the lady would never accept him, Devlin devises a plan to get her to the altar - he’ll win her hand in a bet.

In choosing to marry the spiteful lady, Devlin must accept he will never know true love. But his fortunes turn when he’s offered another tempting option.

A surprise announcement.

Miss Juliet Duval, the illegitimate daughter of Baron Bromfield, was taken into the lord’s house after the death of her mother. The baron finds her an embarrassment, and her half-sister’s jealous tirades see Juliet banished to the role of servant. That is until her father makes a foolish wager and needs a daughter to satisfy his debt.

An unsuitable match.

Thrown together in an odd twist of fate, Devlin and Juliet are mismatched in every regard. He is a hulking figure of a man, powerful, commanding. She is dainty and petite, used to obeying her father, and despising of masterful men. Yet both quickly become what the other needs and together must battle against those determined to tear them apart.

Features:

• Regency historical romance novel
• A novel of approx 70,000 words
• Contains some descriptive sex scenes

©2018 Adele Clee (P)2018 Adele Clee

Great 2nd book in the series

We met the male lead in the prior book so it was great to hear how things turn out for him. In addition, this has a few great twists. Enjoyed it.

Entertaining

The overall story was enjoyable but too often the author interrupted the conversations with long drawn out statements about how the character felt that there were times I had to rewind or just simply ignored it and moved on.

Great 2nd book!

This one relied less on sex, but had its heated moments for sure! I was kept guessing and actually sort of surprised by the outcome. I enjoyed the brief visit from characters in book one very much. I am on to book three with a smile on my face. I so love it when a series keeps me interested.

I loved the honestly between characters!

I really liked this book. I really, really loved that the couple was completely honest with each other from basically the start. I HATE deception books so their honestly was refreshing and I loved it. They took care of each other and they helped each other with their problems. It was just an all around great book.

A Wicked Wager.

I liked the story very much, but I really did not like the narrator at all. She reads in a staccato-like way which sounded very affected to me. I only listened to the end because of the wonderful story line. I will in future rather read books by Adelle Clee if the same narrator is used. 5 star story no more than 3 stars for the narrator.