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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Gamblers, Fiction.
Wagers, Fiction.
Card games, Fiction.
Grief, Fiction.
Gamblers.
Manners and customs.
Wagers.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
London (England), Social life and customs, 19th century, Fiction.