Perhaps it was because she was only half Greek that Clea wasn't tooenthusistic about the marriage her stepfather was arranging forher-althrough she wouldn't have dreamed of defying him. It was after all, nomore or less than most Greek girls could look forward to, and theirmarriages seemed to turn out reasonably well. Until Ben Winter came along toturn all Clea's feelings upside down. Yet wasn't Ben just manipulating herthe way her stepfather had always done?Wasn't any marraige bette than thenothing that Ben had to offer her?