Ty Butler came from Eastern wealth-but killers destroyed everyone who shared his name. Seeking a safe haven in the open West, he's found a home among the outlaws, tinhorns, and fugitives who gather at the gaming table. His skill at reading faces and cards has kept Butler in the money-and it's kept him sharp and ready . . . for the assassins who're hunting him down. Working his way to Dodge City, Butler finds the town in an uproar. A new law's in...

All of London knows Lord Travender’s heart is a prize that cannot be won. An inveterate gambler, he’s willing to risk everything on the turn of a card or prime racing stock, yet never on the unpredictability of love. Until a bit of quick wit and risqué banter sends his heart galloping…

One minute he’s warning Miss Arrington he’ll break her heart, and the next, he’s agreeing to a wager: Who will

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"Pascal's Wager is a splendid read. Connor [...] a historian who understands religion and science equally [...] keeps us turning the page." - Michael Gurian, author of The Minds of Boys "James Connor gives a racy account of a remarkable man [...] in a book that is a fascinating read." - Rev. Dr. John Polkinghorne, author of Quarks Chaos & Christianity "A compelling and readable study of one of the most influential thinkers in religious history."...

Adam B. Seligman is Professor of Religion at Boston University. He is the author of several books, including The Idea of Civil Society and The Problem of Trust (both Princeton). Adam Seligman, one of our most important social thinkers, continues the incisive critique of modernity he began in his previously acclaimed The Idea of Civil Society and The Problem of Trust. In this provocative new work of social philosophy, Seligman evaluates modernity's...

How do humans explore beauty, virtue, love, justice, and goodness? This book argues that philosophical attention to our lives, shaped in part by our choices, is our instrument for investigating these parts of reality. Constructing a life is a philosophical act. Philosophical acts that are shaped by a life, and that shape a life, constitute philosophical style. Everyone has a philosophical style, which is fundamentally about the way we live in the...

California Governor Leland Stanford bets an enormous amount of money trying to prove a point about horse racing and indirectly creates a new art form: movies.

• Worth of a Lady. Spinster Chastity Hamilton is the Duke of Roxburgh's heir. Her father insists she marry. She insists that the man who wins her hand must first find matches for her three younger sisters. Sir Stirling James takes up the challenge, and the sisters are shocked when he announces the engagement of their youngest sister to the Devil of Delny. When Quin Ramsey's surrogate brother Sir Stirling James informs him he is to wed the fourth...

Time and change in police work take no prisoners and as 1992 draws to a close, veteran Met. Pol. Sergeant Moe is feeling increasingly like a hostage to both when he learns of the death of his old dad (and only family), the racing-mad Maurice Moe, sending him back from the East End of London to a blue remembered youth and distant Baytown to arrange the funeral and consider his future. But solace in the shapely form of traffic warden Marie Mee and support...

A nobleman becomes infatuated with a professional gambler and proposes a wager: if she wins, she'll have enough money to secure her independence; if he wins, she has to spend a week with him, possibly ruining her reputation.