Damon Curtis wasn't like anyone Rachel had known in her sheltered young life, so it wasn't really surprising that she should fall in love with him—and he seemed equally attracted to her. It didn't matter in the least to Rachel that she was so much younger than he was certainly it didn't prevent him marrying her. But she was also very much more inexperienced than Damon—and it looked as if that was the rock on which the marriage was going to founder before it had begun. How, after all, could she compete with the sophistication of Paula Winfield, who had been so close to Damon—and who was still too near him for Rachel's liking ...