A Gamble with Hearts

by Barbara Cartland

Quintus Tiverton’s handsome face was marred by an angry scowl.Granted he had saved Selina from a most unsavory predicament, but now he was forced to look after the girl. Quintus was on his way to fashionable Baden-Baden, pursuing his livelihood at the gaming tables.The casinos were no place for Selina. Her beauty would only prove a costly distraction. Her reputation would suffer from exposure to the spa’s more disreputable patrons.Quintus resigned himself to the inconvenience. After all, Selina had given him her word of honor that she would accept the first suitable offer of marriage.It was a promise his lovely traveling companion would live to regret.

Genres: Romance, Fiction, Historical Romance

174 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1975

About the author

Born in 1901, Barbara Cartland started her writing career in journalism and completed her first book, Jigsaw, when she was just 24. An immediate success, it was the start of her journey to becoming the world’s most famous and most read romantic novelist of all time. Inspiring a whole generation of readers around the globe with her exciting tales of adventure, love and intrigue, she became synonymous with the Romance genre. And she still is to this day, having written over 644 romantic fiction books.
As well as romantic novels, she wrote historical biographies, 6 autobiographies, plays, music, poetry and several advice books on life, love, health and cookery – totalling an incredible 723 books in all, with over 1 billion in sales.
Awarded the DBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991 in honour of her literary, political and social contributions, she was President of the Hertfordshire branch of the Royal College of Midwives as well as a Dame of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and Deputy President of the St John Ambulance Brigade.
Always a passionate advocate of woman’s health and beauty, she was dubbed ‘the true Queen of Romance’ by Vogue magazine in her lifetime. Her legend continues today through her wonderfully vivid romantic tales, stories that help you escape from the day to day into the dramatic adventures of strong, beautiful women who battle, often against the odds, eventually to find that love conquers all.
Find out more about the incredible life and works of Dame Barbara Cartland at www.barbaracartland.com

Reviews

[Azet · Rating 3 out of 5]

A card player named Quintus Tiverton is on his way to Paris when one night he hears a young woman crying in the room next door. He decides to follow his heart and goes to her and meets Serena Wade - an innocent beauty who has become a prisoner after being tricked by a woman. Her life is in danger and Quintus makes her promise to obey him until he finds her a husband who can protect her. From then on, they have to pretend to be siblings while Quintus introduces her to every suitable bachelor in Paris — but deep down, both Quintus and Serana realize that they only belong to each other.

Barbara Cartland is a magical writer who knows her genre and show how as a writer the way to emphasize romance and the power of love in small but meaningful scenes.I remember how strongly she did that in The Cruel Count which i rated 5-stars.Both Serena and Quintus are fine characters but i decided to delete one star because of the way they ended up together.SPOILER WARNING!***i don`t like that Quintus was ACTUALLY going to let Serena marry another man if she wouldn`t have threatened to commit suicide.She was literally on her way to drown herself in the river if Quintus hadn`t stopped her and decided to finally confess his love for her.

[Cutyboo]

It was alright.

[Miguel Angelo · Rating 5 out of 5]

The story is very astonishing even though I can't understand on a little on french but the storyline was intense and lovely sometimes heartbreaking it is very good

[Aline Damasceno]

Apesar da tradução com vários erros, o que me tirou um pouco o prazer da leitura, a história é bastante interessante pelo mocinho não ser nada convencional: um jogador inveterado que joga como meio de subsistência. Quis dar muitos tapas nele para ele deixar de ser tapado... Mas Selina é uma graça de mulher, e de uma força extrema. Alguns pontos poderiam ser melhores trabalhados, mas a história é leve e é prazerosa.

[Angeles · Rating 3 out of 5]

As with all of her books, the characters seem awfully breathy, but sweetly innocent.

A light weekend read, just what I needed.

[Juanita · Rating 4 out of 5]

A tad "soppy", but quite an interesting read of times I doubt will ever return