Courage Bingham gets a job with Gideon Reynolds, a millionaire businessman. Courage needs the job to pay for her beloved Grandmother's heart operation. Gideon offers Courage a loan for the expensive operation, but in return he wants her to be his lover. Courage finds that there is something familiar about Gideon, like she has met him before. Courage eventually realizes that they did meet, many years ago, in a dark summerhouse...

I liked the heroine Courage and I felt bad for her at times. Her family was terrible (especially her stepfather and her stepsister Laney). And the hero treated her badly for most of the book, believing she was a different (promiscuous) kind of woman. It was sad to see Courage's romantic daydreams (from years ago in the summerhouse) crushed. I just wish Gideon could have realized his mistakes over Courage sooner in the book. In the last chapter he was still mad and getting his revenge till Courage's friend Jenny had to tell him some truths about innocent Courage. Then Gideon finally saw the light. He didn't grovel enough either. I did like Courage's friend Jenny, who was kind to her.

An intense read full of misunderstandings, jealousy, passion, and revenge. ( )