"I'm glad we both know the score."

When 34 year old Jay Courtland, football hero turned entrepreneur, was used to playing the game of love with sophisticated women who followed the rules-no attachments, no commitments, no cheating, he was not used to the Vanessas of this world.

Yet when he mistook photographer Vanessa for her more glamorous cousin, she reluctantly continued the deception. She was twenty-two years old, had never had a lover and knew she'd never again meet a man who made her feel the way Jay could.

So she prayed for a little beginner's luck and took the chance that Jay would eventually see her--and want her--for what she really was...and not as a poor substitute for Nadia.