<b>In One Dance with a Duke&mdash;</b>the first novel in Tessa Dare&rsquo;s delightful new trilogy&mdash;secrets and scandals tempt the irresistible rogues of the Stud Club to gamble everything for love.<br>&#160;<br>A handsome and reclusive horse breeder, Spencer Dumarque, the fourth Duke of Morland, is a member of the exclusive Stud Club, an organization so select it has only ten members&mdash;yet membership is attainable to anyone with luck. And Spencer has plenty of it, along with an obsession with a prize horse, a dark secret, and, now, a reputation as the dashing &ldquo;Duke of Midnight.&rdquo; Each evening he selects one lady for a breathtaking midnight waltz. But none of the women catch his interest, and nobody ever bests the duke&mdash;until Lady Amelia d&rsquo;Orsay tries<i> </i>her luck.<br><br>In a moment of desperation, the unconventional beauty claims the duke&rsquo;s dance and unwittingly steals his heart. When Amelia demands that Spencer forgive her scapegrace brother&rsquo;s debts, she never imagines that her game of wits and words will lead to breathless passion and a steamy proposal. Still, Spencer is a man of mystery, perhaps connected to the shocking murder of the Stud Club&rsquo;s founder. Will Amelia lose her heart in this reckless wager or win everlasting love?