She'd never missed a deadline before...

Lesley assumed she'd be fired from Chi cagc's Today's Woman if her fiance were to sell the magazine to Cade Randall.

Instead, she was forced to sign a contracr guaranteeing she'd stay--a contract that had more to do with her being in Cade's bed than in his office. But then Cade hadn't forgotten what it had cost him to get rid of her once before ....

She'd missed a deadline on a fifty-thousand-dollar loan that had started off as a cheap payoff ten years ago and had evolved into nothing short of blackmail!