“If my card is higher, you’ll belong to me, obeying my every whim, for as long as I desire.” As Bree Dalton hears the icy words of Russian Prince Vladimir Xendzov, the man whose ring she once wore and life she once ruined, she nervously accepts the biggest wager of her life. Her body for a million dollars. Bree knows better than to doubt the steely ruthlessness of this man. With everything to lose and the weight of Vladimir’s gaze upon her, she will have to play the best she’s ever played—or run the risk of losing herself completely….
In a luxury hotel’s poker room, Bree recovered her sister’s debt. But then Vladimir appeared—the same multimillionaire who left her a prisoner of love ten years ago! And when he raises the stakes of the game, he doesn’t kid around—if she wins, he’ll give her a million dollars. If she loses, she’ll become his slave! What is he plotting? But, if Bree can release her sister and herself from a life on the run, she has to take it… Bree has confidence in her skills, honed under the training of her con man father. But this time it seems Lady Luck is on Vladimir’s side…
"'If my card is higher, you'll belong to me, obeying my every whim, for as long as I desire.' As Bree Dalton hears the icy words of Russian Prince Vladimir Xendzov, the man whose ring she once wore and life she once ruined, she nervously accepts the biggest wager of her life. Her body for a million dollars. Bree knows better than to doubt the steely ruthlessness of this man. With everything to lose and the weight of Vladimir's gaze upon her, she will have to play the best she's ever played--or run the risk of losing herself completely.--P. [4] of cover.
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