Was she saving her neck or cutting her own throat? One minute, beautiful, penniless Pan Belmont was fleeing an irate restaurant manager; the next, she was standing in Silver Galen's sumptuous penthouse, a ragged waif accepting his strange offer. She'd live with him for a month for a fee of $75,000! It would buy time against a world of trouble and desperate secrets -- but there'd be no love. Little did she dream that Silver's wildly lavish care, his passion to protect her, would lure her into his powerful arms...that he would give her the strength to love him...to face the past and shatter secrets...to claim all the wealth, power, and joy that was truly her own.