Andrea Weston tried to harden herself to her cousin Clare's appeal for help.She'd been getting her out of scrapes for too long. Still, she couldn't justsit back and let Blaise Levallier blackmail Clare into marriage, and destroythe lives of people she loved. She could go to France and confront him. Shewouldn't let him get away with it. It wasn't quite that simple. For Blaisewanted a wife. "Your cousin has decided not to fulfill her obligation tome," he said, "so I will take you, instead!"