{"product_id":"the-cheat-jasmine-lee-keith-9798196524899","title":"The Cheat: A Dark Historical Mafia Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dark, subversive reimagining of Cecil B. DeMille's notorious 1915 silent film.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHer husband gambled away her future. The man holding his debt offers to buy one night with her.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSan Francisco, 1915.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLavender Keller married Oliver because he promised to send her to medical college. Three years later, she is still waiting while he controls every dollar, invents new excuses, and quietly wagers away the tuition meant to make her a surgeon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis final debt belongs to Beau Li Song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA former hatchet man who now commands gaming rooms, brothels, and businesses throughout Chinatown, Beau has built an empire in a city determined to exclude men like him. He recognizes exactly what Oliver has squandered-including the brilliant woman trapped inside his Nob Hill home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo Beau names his price.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe will erase $4,200 in gambling debt in exchange for one night with Lavender. Oliver must tell her the truth, and she must enter Beau's house by choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLavender goes prepared to fulfill the bargain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead, Beau feeds her, listens to her ambitions, gives her a room filled with surgical books, and refuses to touch what has not been freely offered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the first time in years, someone sees the life she was meant to have.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat begins later between them is no payment. It is a dangerous affair Lavender chooses for herself, one that crosses the boundaries of race, marriage, and respectability. Beau may be a criminal, but he understands her hunger for independence because he has spent his own life building power inside a country designed to deny it to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Oliver discovers their secret, he will do anything to keep his wife, destroy her reputation, and mark her as his property.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Beau was a hatchet man long before he became a gentleman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the cheat who stole Lavender's future has finally wagered something he cannot afford to lose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInspired by the infamous silent film and reversing its story of race, desire, and ownership, \u003ci\u003eThe Cheat\u003c\/i\u003e is an explicit dark historical underworld romance featuring an aspiring woman surgeon, a Chinese American tong boss, a married heroine, forbidden desire, brutal revenge, and a hard-won HEA in 1915 San Francisco.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jasmine Lee Keith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798196524899\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Jasmine Lee Keith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173917991167,"sku":"9798196524899","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-cheat-jasmine-lee-keith-9798196524899","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}