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Reckless Wager: A Whitechapel Wagers Novel Kindle Edition

by Christy Carlyle (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Set against the backdrop of London's dangerous East End in 1888, Victorian propriety and passions collide when a beautiful widow makes a wager with a wounded police detective bent on solving the Ripper mystery.

Unlucky in love and estranged from his family, Detective Sergeant Benjamin Quinn is obsessed with solving the Ripper crimes. When he’s suspended from the Metropolitan Police, it’s another failure in a long line of disappointments. But a new mystery arises when a beautiful widow shows up at the most infamous pub in Whitechapel seeking his help. He’s determined to assist Kate Guthrie, and equally determined to quell his growing attraction to her.

Kate Guthrie hides painful secrets from her first marriage and has avoided matrimony for nearly ten years. Now she’s finally decided it’s time to remarry and move on with her life, even if it means giving up the charity clinic work in Whitechapel that makes her days worthwhile. But when a battered young woman turns up at the clinic claiming to have been attacked by Jack the Ripper, Kate seeks out Detective Sergeant Benjamin Quinn, a man who sparks feelings in her too potent to deny.
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    Whitechapel Wagers
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    29 December 2014
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Christy Carlyle writes sensual, and sometimes downright steamy, historical romance, usually set in the Victorian era or Regency period. She loves heroes who struggle against all odds and heroines that are ahead of their time. A former teacher with a degree in history, she finds there is nothing better than being able to combine her love of the past with her die-hard belief in happy endings.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00RKZV39K
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gilded Heart Publishing (29 December 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1527 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 188 pages
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Fueled by Pacific Northwest coffee and inspired by multiple viewings of every British costume drama she can get her hands on, USA Today bestselling author Christy Carlyle writes sensual historical romance set in the Victorian era. She loves heroes who struggle against all odds and heroines who are ahead of their time. A former teacher with a degree in history, she finds there's nothing better than being able to combine her love of the past with a die-hard belief in happy endings.

Contact Christy at christy@christycarlyle.com or find out more at www.christycarlyle.com

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Rosewood
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved - Loved - Loved - it
Reviewed in Canada on 30 October 2016
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There is so much action / adventure in this story - hard to believe it is a novella. The characters are interesting and well - developed - the story gels around the abuse of women in that era with a hint of the historical " Jack the Ripper " that has been through out the series. I thought the author got it exactly right when Kate rejected Ben's marriage proposal - It must be scary to step back into a relationship after violence
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Karen
5.0 out of 5 stars All The Elements of Mystery and Romance
Reviewed in the United States on 25 May 2016
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Reckless Wager

By Christy Carlyle

This book hooked me from page one. It takes place in the poor, slum sections of the East End, London – Whitechapel, to be precise – in December 1888. Kate Guthrie has been a widow for ten years. She fees that her current living situation needs to change. She lives with her younger brother in the affluent Moreton Terrace of London. Her younger brother is a veteran of the Second Afghan wars, and is now an esteemed physician. Since his marriage, she has begun to feel like an intruder.

Kate is down on marriage for hersel becaiuse of her own terrible experience. What Kate had thought would be a love match for her, turned out to be two years of torture with a man that beat and abused her. She finds herself at a crossroads…should she marry again? She has been dodging (after having turned down his first proposal) a proposal from a very formal man, Mr. Solomon Thrumble. She fully expected to receive another one at any time. That would spell the end to the only work and life she found fulfilling – doing charity work at a clinic in Whitechapel for the less fortunate. Mr. Thrumble would expect her to entertain his business associates and be his home’s keeper and the mother of an heir and a spare. She wasn’t as sure that she wanted to be a wife, as she felt she needed to be out of her brother’s way.

Kate’s last night’s work in the clinic in Whitechapel leads to the side of a possible victim who barely survived an assault by the infamous ‘Jack the Ripper.’ Kate tries to help out the victim, and agrees to try and locate find the only police detective the victim trusts. Her mercy mission leads Kate to the very place in Whitechapel, unescorted, The Ten Bells Pub, where two of The Ripper’s latest victims had visited shortly before their deaths, in her search for Detective Sergeant Benjamin Quinn. Their mad search to save the latest victim just may also require that they have to save each other, as well.

I loved the story, the pace, and the wonderful characters in this book. The storyline was refreshing, with an adventure and characters in Whitechapel, the poorer section of London. The characters, both secondary as well as the hero and heroine, were wonderfully developed. While this book is a stand alone, I would love to see a future book with some of these characters continued.

I cannot give this book less than FIVE STARS!
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PeggyC51
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Read
Reviewed in the United States on 21 April 2017
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Kate is a widow from an abusive marriage. She spends her time helping at a clinic in Whitechapel and wants to do more to help the women in this area who are mistreated by the men they are with. Benjamin is a police detective who is determined to solve the Ripper murders in Whitechapel. Here is where they meet. Both have been hurt by love in the past; each wishes to avoid it happening again. Will they take a chance to have a second chance? Maybe. What will happen to the Ripper, or the suspect? Reckless Wager is well written and interesting. The characters are well developed and engaging. A good read.
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Jessantonia
3.0 out of 5 stars 3 1/2 stars
Reviewed in the United States on 9 June 2015
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This is the 3rd book in the series I've read. I was very excited to read Kate's story but was a bit disappointed by its execution. I mean Kate and Ben are very like able characters and compliment each other well but there was something missing. Maybe I didn't like Kates hesitation and Bens running to conclusions near the end. It was really short and would have prefer to see more scenes of them together. I think they spent more time apart than together before marrying! Overall though, I really enjoyed the series and recommend it.
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AnonReader
5.0 out of 5 stars Another hit for Christy Carlyle!
Reviewed in the United States on 5 March 2015
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I normally don't read historical romances - but something about Christy Carlyle's books just draw me in. This is her third one I've read and even though they all happen around the time of Jack the Ripper (which is a great sub-plot), all of the stories can be read as stand-alones. Very captivating with characters that draw you in. A great read!
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