The Wedding Wager

Written by Eva Devon

Narrated by Sasha Higgins

All Lady Victoria Kirby wants is to dig in the dirt, take notations, and record history, thank you very much. Bumbling through ballrooms and getting disdained by the ton for her less than ideal looks, on the other hand, is the last thing she wants. But her reckless father has a different idea for her future when he puts up the ultimate ante—her hand in marriage—and loses. Over her dead body.



The Duke of Chase cannot bear to see a woman misused. After all, he saw that often enough as a child. So when he's witness to a marquess gambling away his daughter to a lecher of a man, he has no choice but to step in and rescue her. Lady Victoria has a reputation for being as tart as a lemon and as bitter as one, too. So, he may have just found the perfect wife to keep a promise he made to himself long ago—to never have an heir. With her, surely, he'll never be tempted to take her to bed and break that promise.



But when he meets the wild, witty, intelligent young lady he's bound to marry, he knows trouble is headed his way . . . And everything he ever swore to uphold may very well come undone, especially his heart.



Contains mature themes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Jan 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9781666178388

Eva Devon

USA Today bestseller Eva Devon was raised on literary fiction, but quite accidentally and thankfully, she was introduced to romance one Christmas by Johanna Lindsey's Mallory novella The Present and a romance addict was born. Now, she loves to write her own roguish dukes, alpha males, and the heroines who tame them. evadevonromance.com

Reviews for The Wedding Wager

[Andrea Author · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

When the Duke of Chase sees Victoria's father offering her hand in marriage as a wager, he has to step in. He can't let her be given away to an old lecher. She's got a reputation for her acerbic tongue, but that doesn't bother Chase. He's happy to live separate lives. Producing an heir isn't a goal for him.

Victoria has no desire to marry. She wants to catalogue antiquities, traveling about Britain and the Continent on archeologic digs. But her father has given her little choice, and Chase has vowed to support her projects.

They aren't counting on the attraction that develops between them after the wedding. Will marriage turn all their plans upside-down?

I love the concept behind this story. The hero and heroine are well developed and have a lot of chemistry together. They're well matched in terms of intelligence, which drives a lot of the interactions between them. It's a fun, entertaining, heartfelt story.

Thanks, NetGalley, for the ARC I received. This is my honest and voluntary review.

[Anne Hill · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Terribly hackneyed plot and narrator sounds so flat and biring