Fortunate wager

the long version

"Secrets and subterfuge abound in Regency Newmarket ... Caroline Fortune wants only to train horses and continue her progress towards independence. So she projects a cheerfully argumentative persona in order that the suitors, dredged up by her mother, will all leave her alone. Lord Alexander Rothwell is happy to do so. He's in Newmarket purely to fulfil an obligation; irritable because he believes he's investigating a mare's nest, he wants to return to his political career in London as soon as possible. So, when Caroline finds Alexander left for dead at her brother's racing stables, they are both considerably disconcerted ..."--Publisher description.