To Wager with Love

the long version

Once bitten, twice shy…Harriet Stanhope is intelligent and serious, the kind of girl who reads Plato and likes long walks in the rain. She is unsuited to ballrooms and flirting and finds the season a horrific waste of time. Once upon a time she fell in love, however, she trusted her heart to a man who kissed her and whispered sweet words … and then laughed with a friend about her having done so.Heartbroken and humiliated, Harriet vows to use her brain in the future and never trust her stupid hea