A Streak of Luck

the long version

TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE It seemed a dream come true when handsome, charming Gervais Fenton, Lord Sayre, asked for Lady Rachel Villiers' hand in marriage. Not only did Rachel adore Gervais at first sight, but marriage to him would free her from the web of wicked slander that her devilishly beautiful, diabolically malicious stepmother, Samantha, was weaving around her. Only after the marriage took place did Rachel learn that it had come about because of a game of cards between her father and Fenton--a game in which. Fenton had held the losing hand. Her father thought he had won her happiness. Instead she faced heartbreak on the horns of a dilemma that gave her the choice of sacrificing her pride if she remained with the infuriating Fenton or embracing ruin by fleeing this man she could neither trust nor bring herself to stop loving...