Dangerous Games — Amanda Scott

When Nicholas Barrington, eldest son of the Earl of Ulcombe, first met Melissa Seacourt, he suspected something was amiss. The desperation he sensed, beneath her well-bred beauty haunted him. He didn't realize how desperate Melissa really was... until he found her main at a Newmarket gambling club--being auctioned off by her father to the highest bidder. So, for a mere twenty thousand guineas, Nick bought himself a wife. But their troubles were just beginning. With a villain hot on their heels, and a fortune--and their lives--hanging in the balance, Nick and Melissa would soon gamble everything on the most dangerous and irresistible game of all: their growing love.