Alek Rykovsky was handsome, rich, charming—in fact, he was eligible to his fingertips; and he had asked Tara to marry him. Tara for her part had vowed never to be poor—or dominated—again, and she was looking, she declared, for a rich husband. So where was the problem? First, that she hated Alek; second, that she knew he would dominate her in just the way she was adamant no man ever should. Yet fate seemed determined to trap her into a situation from which there was no escape from him...