Marlee Stafford is not a fool. She knows the good-looking, arrogant Richard Arden provides married her on her behalf money, just like she’s wedded him for his aristocratic name. And Marlee won’t indication over her inheritance until she’s enticed her broad-shouldered hubby into desiring only her. However when his hungry kisses begin to ignite her most personal fantasies, Marlee knows she’s produced a weighty mistake, for this inexplicable man harbors a dark secret-and right now he’s holding her helpless under his spell! Before meeting Marlee, Lark Arden’s only aspiration was to track down the pirate who got kidnapped his fiancee, Bettina. But when he takes on the identity of his lately deceased cousin, Richard, he hardly ever desires that his blue-eyed proxy bride will tempt him beyond sanity.