Faro's Daughter
Georgette Heyer
A cynical gamester sets out to buy off his cousin's fiancée — and meets the one woman he can't outmanoeuvre.
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Renowned gamester, and the first to own that he is untroubled by a romantic disposition, Max Ravenscar regards all eligible females with indifference. But when he learns that his young cousin Adrian is bent on marrying Deborah Grantham, beautiful mistress of her aunt's gaming house, he meets an opponent in whom all his experience of risk and gambles finds him totally unprepared.
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