The death of her beloved father devastates young Angelique Bain, but an unexpected opportunity offers new hope. Years later, when, as an aspiring ballerina, she makes her debut in Europe, she experiences the heady excitement of first love.Lauded by the ballet world, and with her career poised to soar, Angelique's life is, again, thrown into turmoil by a man obsessed with her.Dire circumstances lead to her working as an escort and the involvement in a criminal case-one that threatens to expose her shameful secret and brings her to the attention of the formidable prosecutor, Adam Thorne.He despises her, and she thinks he's insufferable, but, no matter how hard she tries to fight against it, Angelique can't deny Adam's devastating attraction or the emotions he stirs in her.