The Lyon Whisperer

In this high stakes game of love and marriage, when love equals surrender, who will be the victor?

Lady Amelia Duval is used to being indulged. The reckless daughter of an earl has evaded each and every suitor her father has put before her. She knows she's pushed him too far, however, when her litter of mud-covered puppies upends a meeting between him and the darkly handsome colonel, Lord Chase Culver, aka the "Iron Lion of Barrosa."

Lord Culver stays calm in the face of disaster—such as when his uncle informs him of the fortune-crushing bet he lost in the notorious Lyon's Den. To satisfy the debt, Culver must marry Lady Amelia Duval, a woman he's glimpsed only once, and bring her to heel—or the loss doubles.

The stern tactician's simple plan to tame the raven-haired beauty by any means hits a serious snag when he finds himself reluctantly drawn to his wife's tender heart and unladylike eccentricities.

Quickly softening toward her magnetic and oddly scandal-averse new husband, Amelia struggles to reign in her less-than-proper tendencies, and with little success.

When she confesses she's fallen head-over-heels in love with Culver, she unwittingly dismantles his entire scheme and achieves the unthinkable, garnering the Iron Lion's unconditional surrender.

Knowing the terrible secret he guards would destroy her, he will bet everything to protect the woman who owns him, heart and soul, even if it means losing her forever.

Will his gamble on love win them a happily-ever-after, or cost them both all they hold dear?