Hazard's Mistress: A Humorous Regency Romance

Written by Beverley Oakley

Narrated by Beverley Oakley

Drab companion by day, dashing gambling queen by night!

For nine long years, Louisa Stapleton has done penance for ‘chasing the scarlet’ in her reckless youth.

Now a marriage proposal from unctuous Mr. Rivers, who promises to redeem her 'stained’ character, looks like her only opportunity to escape her life of drudgery as companion to her exacting aunt...

Until the unexpected opportunity to play the role of a gaming hostess at the Soho Club offers her a different future.

But while the night-time subterfuge, in disguise, offers her the chance to reveal her true inner self in the company of handsome, dashing Mr Felix Evesham, will the revelation of Louisa's real identity as the disgraced and down-at-heel companion to Felix's godmother, threaten her hopes of a future with the man she has loved for from afar for the past five years?

A humorous Regency romance with a riotous ending!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sani Publishing
• Release date: Nov 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822652460

Beverley Oakley

Beverley Oakley was seventeen when she bundled up her first her 500+ page romance and sent it to a publisher. Unfortunately drowning her heroine on the last page was apparently not in line with the expectations of romance readers so Beverley became a journalist. Twenty-six years later Beverley was delighted to receive her first publishing contract from Robert Hale (UK) for a romance in which she ensured her heroine was saved from drowning in the icy North Sea. Since 2009 Beverley has written more than thirteen historical romances, mostly set in England during the early nineteenth century. Mystery, intrigue and adventure spill from their pages and if she can pull off a thrilling race to save someone’s honour – or a worthy damsel from the noose – it’s time to celebrate with a good single malt Scotch. Beverley lives with her husband, two daughters and a Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy the size of a pony opposite a picturesque nineteenth century lunatic asylum. She also writes Africa-set adventure-filled romances tarring handsome bush pilot heroes, and historical romances with less steam and more sexual tension, as Beverley Eikli.