**Her situation was desperate** Caroline Adams needed money; Gustav de Leeuw needed a wife. So he offered to settle her debt if she'd act as his wife. Their marriage was to be temporary. Caroline soon realized it wasn't entirely a businesslike relationship that Gustav had in mind. Yet he had told her that "love is an overrated emotion I have no time or desire for. ” But she was unable to resist him or to stop herself from falling in love with him. And to Caroline's growing despair, she knew his deep cynicism was unshakable ....