Roman Merrick engages a young woman's debt-ridden gambler father in a game of chance, wagering ten thousand pounds against one night with the man's exquisite daughter. But what began as a game undertaken for pleasure soon becomes a perilous gamble for love and passion that could bring Merrick's London underworld empire tumbling down.
Gamblers, Fiction.
Wagers, Fiction.
Card games, Fiction.
Grief, Fiction.
Gamblers.
Manners and customs.
Wagers.
London (England), Social life and customs, 19th century, Fiction.