from fictiondb: Married to the enemy? Arriving in Manhattan, Lisa Hayward had expected to be greeted by her brother, rather than Thornton Landers, a businessman with a sexy Southern drawl and seduction on his mind! Lisa tried to keep Thorn at a distance, but it was impossible! Swept off her feet by his ruthless charm and powerful persuasion, in no time at all she'd agreed to marry him--only to discover that a darker motive lay behind Thorn's proposal: revenge!

Merlyn is fed up with men who approach her with an ulterior motive—to get to her father’s money. So she makes a deal with her father that he won’t force her to get married if she can live for a month without revealing her identity. Bravely accepting the deal, she moves out and lands a job as a live-in assistant to a novelist. The only problem is that she and her employer's banker son, Cameron, fight like cats and dogs. Then one incident changes the dynamic of their relationship…