Melanie Rawson had been very young and inexperienced when she agreed to marry Leandros Angeli and it was inexperience that had made her take fright and break off the engagement. But all that was seven years ago and Leandros had faded into the past. Or had he? For now disturbingly, he had appeared in her life again-demanding that, as the price of her brother's freedom, she should go with him to Crete. In the days of ancient Crete, girls were taken there as sacrifices to the monstrous Minotaur. Now in the present day, it seemed that Melanie was to be sacrificed too- to a man who had waited seven years for his revenge...