The Rogue's Wager

Written by Christi Caldwell

Narrated by Tim Campbell

In the first installment of USA Today bestselling author Christi Caldwell’s Sinful Brides series, a bookkeeper-turned-lady takes a gamble on a man she never meant to fall for.

Lord Robert Dennington, the Marquess of Westfield, has long reveled in the freedom afforded him as the ducal heir. He knows he must someday do right by the Somerset line, but he’s in no hurry to give up his carefree existence.

Helena Banbury is a bookkeeper in a gentleman’s gambling club, adept at analyzing numbers and accounts but helpless for lack of influence. She’s never belonged among the nobility on the gaming hell floors, but neither does she feel completely herself among the men who run the Hell and Sin Club, despite the fact that they are family. The once-illiterate girl from the streets wants more than the gilded walls her protective cage can offer.

When Robert mistakenly enters her chambers one night, Helena is forced out of her predictable life and thrust into the glittering world of Society. Will the charms of the marquess prove more perilous than any danger she ever knew on the streets?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: Oct 25, 2016
• ISBN: 9781531864316

Christi Caldwell

USA Today bestselling, RITA-nominated author Christi Caldwell believes the most perfect heroes and heroines have imperfections, and she rather enjoys torturing them before crafting them a well-deserved happily ever after! 

Reviews for The Rogue's Wager

[Irena · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

2 stars are for the narrator who did a great job with annoying characters and plot. Boring, repetitive, confusing plot and erratic heroine. One moment timid and anxious, the next proud and stupid

[M A. I. · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The first half of the book had me totally unexcited and I just wanted to finish it. Surprisingly, I grew fonder of the characters and ended up liking them quite a bit.
The biggest flaw for me was the constant "telling things instead of showing them". We would be inside the MCs minds constantly, jumping from one internal monologue to the next. I'm not demanding a romance packed with action and drama. Just "something".
Also, I lost count of the number of times I saw the word mayhap.
I'm not going to go to everyone and recommend this but I saw enough things from Christi Caldwell that I liked so I'm going to keep an eye on her.

[Brooklyne Clark · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Good book. Needed the ending to be longer and better wrapping up of the story. Like fast forward several months.

[UchennaEzeh · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Nice book. The bookkeeper and the duke to be. Quite interesting

[pnrlist · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I loved this! Plain, bluestocking spinster heroine with scars from abuse in her childhood. Hero is a wary, untrusting rake with his own emotional scars. Right up my alley!!!

[foreigncircus · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This regency romance features great characters and some believable dramatic twists. Helena and Robert are both strong characters who make an enjoyable couple, and the secondary characters are also well-drawn (for the most part). The reason I didn't give more stars is the fact that I walked away with more questions than answers regarding Helena's early life. I don't understand how she fell in with her street brothers (and her real brother) given that he was apparently separated from his family at birth, I don't understand why her father never actually searched for his family, and I don't know how Ryker and Helena know who their father is given all that separates them from him. I assume some of these questions might be answered in the next book in the series, but feel they needed to be addressed in this one to make the narrative more believable. Still, all in all a decent read.