For you there'll be no escape from me,' Slade Anderson had told Rosalind eight years ago, when he had been young and shy and awkward and she had flippantly spurned his advances and love. She hadn't cared about him then and she hadn't given him a thought since - but now he was back in her life with a vengeance! No longer shy or awkward, very much a man of the world - and with a score to settle. And unless her beloved brother's business was to be ruined she had got to fulfil Slade's condition for saving it, and marry him. And now the boot was on the other foot -for now it was Rosalind who loved, and Slade who was keeping at a distance . .