Emaline Adair Pearson is a widow with two young children, and finds herself in a pickle when her cousin looses the family estate during a game of chance to Sir Ashten (Ash) Ravenhill. Ash comes to the manor with the intention of fixing up the the place and selling it, but he's soon victim to Emaline...
It was lovely regency read. Bad boy gambler, who has survived on his own after his parents abandoned him, wins a run-down estate. Problem is, the gatehouse is occupied by a young widow with two lively boys. She is the cousin of the man who lost the estate and is worried that the new owner will sell ...