*50-PAGE FREE PREVIEW* The Countess Lia is hosting a gorgeous charity gala. Among the generous bids of all the celebrities, Roark, a multimillionaire, makes a scene and embraces her. “It’s almost as if they’re trying to buy you at an auction. But I’m the one who’s going to win the right to take you to bed,” he says, offering her a million dollars. Lia allows him to take her to the middle of the dance floor, and suddenly he steals a lustful kiss against her will. The passion nearly drowns her. But what will happen when she hears that he’s the man who indirectly caused the deaths of her father and younger sister?