Rambler's Rest
A Winning Hand or A Bad Draw?When womanizing gambler Nate Rambler wins Magnolia Manor in a poker game, he plans to sell the plantation to finance a long-desired gaming den. He soon learns that the windfall comes with obligations even he can't ignore. Slaves in need. Repairs. Crops that need harvesting. And four children orphaned by their father's recent suicide. Then the beautiful nun arrives.Believing she has killed her abusive stepfather, Lisette Antilly flees her home and stows away on a paddle wheeler where she is befriended by a nun on her way to instruct four orphans. When Lisette survives an engine explosion and is found wearing Sister Dominique's habit, she accepts being mistaken for the nun as the answer to her prayers. How better to hide from the law? Unfortunately, she can't hide from the emotions the handsome owner ignites inside her. A man who wants no roots. A woman determined to keep her home at all costs. Can an aimless gambler forced into responsibility and a phony nun running from a murder charge find love amidst a crooked game of lies and treachery and a deck stacked against them?
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Rambler's Rest
A Winning Hand or A Bad Draw?When womanizing gambler Nate Rambler wins Magnolia Manor in a poker game, he plans to sell the plantation to finance a long-desired gaming den. He soon learns that the windfall comes with obligations even he can't ignore. Slaves in need. Repairs. Crops that need harvesting. And four children orphaned by their father's recent suicide. Then the beautiful nun arrives.Believing she has killed her abusive stepfather, Lisette Antilly flees her home and stows away on a paddle wheeler where she is befriended by a nun on her way to instruct four orphans. When Lisette survives an engine explosion and is found wearing Sister Dominique's habit, she accepts being mistaken for the nun as the answer to her prayers. How better to hide from the law? Unfortunately, she can't hide from the emotions the handsome owner ignites inside her. A man who wants no roots. A woman determined to keep her home at all costs. Can an aimless gambler forced into responsibility and a phony nun running from a murder charge find love amidst a crooked game of lies and treachery and a deck stacked against them?
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780998277547 |
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| Publisher: | Penny Pincher Press |
| Publication date: | 06/27/2020 |
| Series: | Louisiana , #1 |
| Pages: | 298 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.24(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.67(d) |
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