Master of the House

One rash promise changed her life

All woman are the same," Alaric Stoddart told her firmly. "They're after two things only--money and marriage, in that order."

It was an unpleasant welcome for Petra Bain on the eve of starting her new job as a guide in the historic Stoddart mansion.

Particularly as she was not after the Stoddart money, and she would not have married the arrogant, autocratic master of the house if he had been the last man on earth.