Her money could buy anything - except him. Oil heiress Carlotta Burr had the money and freedom to do whatever she liked. That included jetting to the Caribbean and Europe, where she met and quickly married horse show champion Kurt Maiden. The discovery that Kurt was a fortune hunter jolted her. His death was a further shock, as was the news that her father had hired a bodyguard to protect her from kidnappers. Carlotta had never before met a man like Brad, her bodyguard. Not only did he despise her money and her spoiled, impulsive ways, he made it clear that their mutual attraction would never grow into anything else.