The Wallflower's Wager: A Regency Enemies-to-Lovers Romance of Scandal, Secrets, and Second Chances

She accepted a rake's wager to bankrupt him. She never planned on falling for him.

London, 1814. Jane Pemberton learned long ago that being seen is dangerous—so she made herself invisible on purpose, a chess player who reads every ballroom like a board she refuses to sit at. Then the notorious Lord Nicholas Vane wagers he can turn the season's most overlooked wallflower into its most dazzling diamond.

Jane accepts. Not to be seen by him—to ruin him.

What neither of them knows is that the wager is a trap. Nicholas was sent by the Crown's most secret office to reach the very papers that could prove Jane's late father a traitor... or a hero. As Jane rises and the two fall dangerously, impossibly in love, each discovers the other has been lying from the first handshake.

Now, with a forced marriage closing in and an office that erases inconvenient people, Jane must make the one move a chess player dreads most: sacrifice the piece she can never get back.

Perfect for readers of Bridgerton, Evie Dunmore, and Mary Balogh, this slow-burn enemies-to-lovers Regency romance blends the wit of a ballroom comedy with the pulse of a spy thriller—and a wallflower heroine you'll be rooting for long after the last page.

If you love clever heroines, tortured heroes with secrets, and a love story you have to earn—one-click and step into The Pemberton Season.

Book 2 in The Pemberton Season. Reads completely as a standalone.

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E-bog: 14. juli 2026