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Never Wager with a Wallflower is thethird and final delightful installment in the Merriwell Sisters Regency romcom series

Miss Venus Merriwell has been waiting for her prince to come since the tender age of fourteen She wants a man who is selfless academic like her and free from all the wretched vices her gambler father enjoyed far too much before he left the Merriwell sisters practically destitute Unfortunately after a slew of romantic disappointments there is still no sign of that prince at twentythree and the only one true love of her life is the burstingattheseams orphanage in Covent Garden that she works tirelessly for An orphanage that desperately needs to expand into the empty building next door

For Galahad Sinclair gambling isnt just his life its in his blood He grew up and learned the trade at his grandfathers knee in a tavern on the far away banks of the Hudson in New York But when fate took all that away and dragged him across the sea to London it made sense to set up shop here Hes spent five years making a success out of his gaming hell in the sleazy docks of the East End Enough that he can finally afford to buy the pleasure palace of his dreamsand where better than in the capitals sinful heart Covent Garden The only fly in his ointment is the perfect building hes just bought to put it in also happens to be right next door to the orphanage run by his cousins wifes youngest sister A pious disapproving and unsettling siren he has avoided like the plague since she flattened him five years ago

While Venus and Galahad lock horns over practically everything and while her malevolent orphans do their darndest to sabotage his lifelong dream can either of them take the ultimate gambleand learn to love thy neighbor