Eleanor Blakely is all too aware that her reputation dangles by a very slender thread. Unfortunately, she's found herself in the midst of a delicious series of wagers with a consummate charmer, and she can't seem to stop herself from saying yes to every wicked proposition.
Whatever twist of fate has kept his best friend's sister on the shelf is a mystery to Viscount Wroxton, but when the inveterate little gamester suddenly catches his attention, she's entirely is too fascinating to ignore. The fact that she has five enormous brothers is hardly worth thinking about—she's thrown down the gauntlet, and he has no intention of losing, whatever the cost...
With a bonus short story, Three Courtesans, which was originally written as a blog post for the Twelve Days of Christmas (I got Three French Hens).
Isobel Carr has a BA in philosophy, with minors in history and creative writing (Hollins College) and an MFA in creative writing (San Francisco State University). Combine all that with $3.25 and you can buy a spicy chai at her favorite coffee shop. After finishing graduate school, it became painfully clear that a job in the arts wasn't going to pay enough to eat, so she set about looking for a "real" job, ending up as an international trade consultant (basically, fighting with lawyers for a living). When she is not doing that, she is usually writing, though she very occasionally still takes a day to go to a historical re-enactment, in the name of research of course.