All she'd ever needed was love Anna Rendle was an aspiring young actress on her way to the top. Her training had prepared her for a life of frenetic discipline, self-sacrifice and controlled emotion—but not for someone as dangerously exciting as Laird Montgomery. Anna's initial meeting with Laird—even his name sounded phony—made her head spin, made nonsense of her plans for the future. Getting back on course wasn't easy. It took all Anna's powers to mask her love for him—a love she knew he'd never return.