Quel lord affascinante e infido non era l'uomo che Victoria credeva fosse, ma Victoria ha bisogno di sposarsi... subito!

Per salvare la sua famiglia dalla rovina, la bella Victoria Shelby non ha altra scelta che sposarsi. Le sue opzioni sono limitate... finché non si ricorda del timido, giovane servitore della porta accanto. E poi scopre che il suo amico d'infanzia è in realtà il visconte Thurlow: spietato uomo d'affari, futuro conte e uomo la cui famiglia è ammantata nello scandalo.

Desperate to keep her neighborhood community center open, Gwendolyn Sinclair seeks out Xavier St. James, her childhood friend…and brother of her dead fiancé. Xavier possesses the funds necessary to keep the center open, but he offers another bargain—a devil’s bargain: submit her body to his pleasure for seven days and the building doesn’t close its doors. Left scarred from an accident, Xavier is bitter, resentful and alone. When Gwendolyn reappears in his life, need and loneliness overrides conscience and he proposes an arrangement she can’t afford to refuse. With the woman he has always wanted—but could never have—finally in his bed, he hungers for more. Her heart. But could she come to love a beast?

From a USA Today bestselling author, comes Rita Award finalist with with Strong Romantic Elements-- Pamela Morsi at her finest.

For Jack Crabtree, returning home to the backwoods of Catawah to tend to his ailing grandfather isn't exactly how he wanted to spend the better part of his week. He'd just closed a huge deal at work, had three kids home for the summer, and a wife who was angry at him for trying to move them to a bigger house--not to mention, he wasn't looking forward to spending his time running through an obstacle course of crazy relatives who, since his father's death, never felt like anything more than strangers.