Step into a world of sophistication and glamour, where sinfully seductive heroes await you in luxurious international locations. One bride: purchased and paid for! Allegra Avesti never imagined that her fiancé, wickedly handsome tycoon Stefano Capozzi, saw her as just another item on his agenda. On discovering the truth, Allegra fled. How could she share her life with a man who'd negotiated the terms of their wedlock in the boardroom rather than the bedroom...? Years later, Stefano needs Allegra – and is determined to claim his runaway bride. Independent Allegra is no longer the innocent young girl Stefano remembers, but this ruthless billionaire always gets what he demands: the defiant but ohsodesirable Allegra will return to Italy with him – and if he has to seduce her into agreeing, then that will make it all the more pleasurable for him...