Her Stepbrother Sold Her Hand to Pay His Gaming Debts — The Duke Wed Her Before the Ink Dried

Her Stepbrother Sold Her Hand to Pay His Gaming Debts — The Duke Wed Her Before the Ink Dried At three in the morning Rupert Mallory lost a fortune at hazard and signed his stepsister away to pay it. By half past nine the Duke of Ardleigh, who had watched him do it, had a licence, a church and a second signature still shining wet. A Regency romance of a card-table bride, a duke who will not have a pack of cards in his house, a stolen Gainsborough and the watch seal that gave a villain away. Settle in and stay for the last hand. Subscribe to The Marriage Mart for a new historical love story every day: arranged marriages, cruel families and dukes who choose their brides in public. This story is a work of fiction.