Victor Bartlett, the Earl of Wedmont, has sworn off marriage, but he didnāt think heās sworn off women. When he rescues a brash American gambler, who has won too much and too often, Victor finds his feelings for the youth unsettling. To scare the runaway back to America, he challenges Leonard to a duel with notoriously inaccurate and cursed pistols.
But the pistols have a unique way of mending rifts with marriage. Victor didnāt mean to shoot the boy at all, but Leonard is wounded. When Leonard is unmasked as a girl what can Victor do but take her home to heal? But who will heal whom...
Victor Bartlett, the Earl of Wedmont, has sworn off marriage, but he didnāt think heās sworn off women. When he rescues a brash American gambler, who has won too much and too often, Victor finds his feelings for the youth unsettling. To scare the runaway back to America, he challenges Leonard to a duel with notoriously inaccurate and cursed pistols.
But the pistols have a unique way of mending rifts with marriage. Victor didnāt mean to shoot the boy at all, but Leonard is wounded. When Leonard is unmasked as a girl what can Victor do but take her home to heal? But who will heal whom...