Passion for the Game

For the notorious Lady Winter, seduction and duplicity are required to survive.
Cunning and precision are the tools of pirate Christopher St. John.
Pitted against one another, they are a surprise waiting to happen.

SET A CRIMINAL TO CATCH A CRIMINAL
Christopher St. John and Maria, Lady Winter, are infamous in Society for their misdeeds and their charming allures. Wherever they go, scandalized whispers and covetous glances follow. A ruthless pirate and a widow whose two husbands have met untimely deaths, the wickedly renowned figures are even more intriguing to the authorities. Now they've been set on the most provocative of tasks-St. John is released from prison to learn the "Wintry Widow's" intimate secrets, while Lady Winter is charged with performing a similar deception in reverse. One will succeed. One will hang.

FROM BALLROOM TO BEDROOM, THEY'RE PERFECTLY MATCHED
With the fate of loved ones in the balance, the unlikely couple embarks upon a battle of wills and wits that takes them from glittering ballrooms to the depths of the underworld to the candlelit pleasures of the bedroom. As they fall helpless to a desire and startling affinity neither expected, the deadly web of their subterfuge closes in, forcing them to make a choice. Individual freedom? Or an audacious scheme to keep an impossible yet irresistible love...

Sylvia Day is the bestselling, award-winning author of over a dozen novels. A wife and mother of two from Southern California, she is a former Russian linguist for the U.S. Army Military Intelligence. Called wonderful and passionate by WNBC.com and wickedly entertaining by Booklist, Sylvia s books have hit bestseller lists such as Bookscan and Barnes & Noble. When she's not writing, you can find her chatting with visitors to her weblog, message board, and chat loop.