Laura wasn't surprised when she saw Dirk Thornton with a glamorous brunette:her estranged husband's reputation as a womanizer was well-known to her. Butshe was shocked by her feelings for Dirk--they weren't dead at all and, whatwas more, he knew it! Soon Dirk, a top Sydney criminal lawyer, was pursuingher relentlessly, but Laura couldn't forget that she'd been unable toconceive his child--which meant that there could be no future for them. Whythen was she still tempted to accept Dirk's simply outrageous proposal?