The asking price.

Now's the time you start to pay."

The vindictive words cut right through Sian's body. She wanted nothing more than to leave the bitterness of the past behind her, but evidently Blair Davenport, 35, wasn't going to let her.

Blair blamed her for his friend's death and thought of her as a rich man's spoiled daughter. He was wrong--but even if she could get him to listen to her explanations, he wouldn't believe her.

It was an impossible situation, made worse by Sian's determination not to succumb to the sparks of attraction between them .