Boston socialite Morgan Lett is having a run of bad luck. Her fiancE just dumped her for her stepsister, the charity foundation she's given her life to is in danger of folding, and now, the gorgeous man she bid on and won at a masquerade bachelor auction turns out to be a cold-hearted jerk...and her new employer.

Millionaire Alexander Bishop needs the best wife money can buy. In order to inherit his family business, he must get engaged--fast. And Morgan, with her beauty and pedigree, is the perfect candidate. Her sharp tongue may drive him crazy, but she needs money to save the foundation she loves, and he needs a fiancEe. It's a flawless arrangement--no strings, no love. But soon she has him craving more, and cursing the platonic terms of their agreement.

Still, he won't allow need--no matter how hot it burns--to threaten everything he's built.