"Will you marry me?" she blurted out

Raina could hardly believe the words had come from her lips. How could she ask Dev Masters, of all people, to enter into such a relationship?

Dev Masters despised her. He thought she was a good-for-nothing greedy socialite who had neglected her father. Yet Dev Masters was the one man qualified to run her father's outback station, the only one who could help save her inheritance.

Dev eyed her flushed cheeks intently as she rushed on to explain. "Of course, it would be only a platonic business arrangement. Nothing else!"