The Cheat

Summary

A society woman with a yen for roulette stakes her reputation on a single spin, loses, and barters her virtue to a Burmese ivory baron whose brand—seared into her shoulder—ignites a courtroom inferno of scandal, self-slaughter, and last-minute redemption that leaves the gilded drawing rooms of 1905 gasping through opera-glasses at the spectacle of female desire shackled by its own silk-lined traps.

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