Sizzling romance with a splash of intrigue. -- Julia Quinn Lila Marleigh is a smart, unconventional and independent English-Indian beauty who controls what's allowed into her iced champagne punch, her gaming establishment and her life... till Ivor Tristram turns up and yes, it's a romance and mystery and Lila is charming, but it's the painful secret at the heart of her family that leaves me wanting even more. Are the Marleighs going to be the next Bridgertons? I can only hope! -- Ovidia Yu, author of The Crown Colony Series and Aunty Lee's Delights