Millionaire businessman Dominic Farrell wants a son and heir but has no wish to marry. When he discovers one of his employees is in desperate need of money he offers her a bargain – a marriage of convenience and a baby in exchange for a payment of cash. Rebecca cannot believe her luck and jumps at the chance to solve all her money problems. But the marriage ends in disaster when Rebecca loses her baby and disappears from his life. Now five years later Rebecca is returning to Sydney to arrange a meeting with Dominic. She fled from their marriage a disheartened, traumatized girl. Today, she is returning a self-confident, independent woman. What will Dominic think of this new Rebecca?
Shannon would do anything to save her beloved brother’s life, including making a devil’s bargain with a foreign Prince. But his price was high. He demanded she leave everything that was familiar to her and go with him to a strange country. A country she knew nothing about where she would have to face her biggest nightmare the fear and terror of an assassin’s bullet. Six months ago she had fled from that horror. Now she had to find the courage to pay that price for his help. They came from opposite sides of the world and from different cultures. He was the Crown Prince of Bashram and she was an ordinary woman who was desperate to save her brother.