Now, when her father's will stipulated Jared as her guardian for the six months prior to her twenty-first birthday, Catherine was no more enthusiastic about the arrangement then he. She went to Barbados reluctantly."Why did you bring me here, Jared? It's obvious you don't really want me. Just because you once had a great deal of satisfaction in putting me down, you can't resist repeating the experiment, can you?"Yet, despite the ever-present antagonism, some fascination lingered between them.

    But then it's love at first sight for Cat and lust at first sight for Aldo—so the wedding is on! Once in Italy, Cat plans for her new husband to fall in love with her—only it seems he's returned to his mistress! Proudly announcing she's leaving him, Cat discovers that, mistress or not, Aldo certainly has no intention of relinquishing his convenient wife….

    And Jared Faulkner was demanding a reckoning.Purdey wasn't proud of the way she'd treated Jared in the past, even though at the time she could see no real alternative.But it was a fearful price Jared wanted to extract from her-far greater than she'd expected to pay. And just as before she could see no other way out. Jared had her in his power and could so easily crush her....