Wager of Desire (Electronic book text)

Erotic BDSM Romance. During a time of excess and debauchery in Regency England, Millicent Locke runs an elegant gaming house with the help of her beautiful niece, Sophia. Millicent plans for Sophia to become the mistress of the wealthy Geoffrey Allerton who holds the mortgage on her establishment, but just as Allerton is ready to make an offer to Sophia, Lord Devine descends on the establishment amidst rumors of his extravagance and depravity. In a game of chance, an inebriated Allerton loses the gaming house to Devine, who in turn presents Millicent with the mortgage, in exchange for her niece. Now Devine's property, Sophie quickly learns the man's true intentions, when he orders her to strip and climb on a table for his 'inspection'. Though mortified, she's bound by the exchange and must comply. Devine subjects her to a humiliating test of her virginity and spirits her away to his London townhouse, where Sophia finds herself nothing more than the man's sex slave. Her virginity ripped away and she's humiliated in front of the household staff. then Devine himself brands her as his property. He later makes a public spectacle of his new slave and gives her as a reward to his gentlemen friends. Brutally punished for any defiance, chained, leashed, deprived of privacy and forced to eat on the floor become a regular routine for the sad Sophie. Only when Devine's son, Gervaise, arrives, and the two fall in love, does Sophie see any hope for her future. But it's not clear that Gervaise can extricate her from his father's tight grasp.This beautifully crafted novel is filled with suspense, romance, lust, forced sex and devious, very often public sadism.