MacGregors · Book 1
Playing the Odds
- Published
- 1 January 1985
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780263904598
- Type
- novel

About this book
Playing the Odds (1985) opens the MacGregors saga with Serena, a blackjack dealer and one of patriarch Daniel MacGregor's four adult children, resisting the spouse her father has already decided is right for her. It runs 320 pages.
Its place in MacGregors
Playing the Odds is book 1 in the MacGregors series. It is followed by Tempting Fate. See the full MacGregors reading order.
The MacGregors is Nora Roberts's sprawling, multi-generational family saga about Daniel MacGregor, a strong-willed Scottish-American patriarch, and his lifelong, unapologetic campaign to matchmake every one of his children and grandchildren into happy marriages. The earliest books focus on Daniel's four adult children — blackjack dealer Serena, attorney Caine, senator Alan, and reclusive cartoonist Ian — as Daniel maneuvers each of them toward a spouse he's already decided is right for them, usually against their…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780263904598