Marriage as a business merger—or a hostile takeover?



Serena Winslow Wright. She was proper Old Boston, her blood the bluest of blue. John Bourque, on the other hand, was a rank outsider. Wildly successful, vitally masculine and terribly sexy, but...an outsider.



Last summer, Serena fell in love with John. But all her joy at marrying him disappeared when she learned that he and her father had made a "deal"—Bourque money for the Wright name, the Wright connections.

The marriage was a farce—even John said so—but Serena couldn't leave. Because she had to protect the father who'd always protected her. And because she was still in love with her husband....