Can a marriage of revenge ever turn into love? Valentin Carrion del Bosque, former peasant turned wealthy spice trader, has only one mission: get revenge on the man who dishonored his sister. After waiting years for the perfect moment, he finally sees the chance to wreak havoc on his enemy's life by marrying his sister. Contessa Ysabel Garcia de Alba only wanted to live her life in peace and become a sister of the holy orders, until her brother demands she marries a man in order to escape that man's threat to ruin their family name. She becomes a mail order bride by proxy and travels from Spain to New Mexico in order to save the family. When Valentin sees the lovely, beautiful contessa, he's torn between his desire of getting revenge on her brother and his attraction for his enemy's sister. Ysabel wonders if she can ever be more to him than the sister of the man he hates. When secrets of the past are revealed, can Valentin move past the pain and find love in the arms of a woman who carries the same blood as his enemy?