There was no excuse for her response

The ruthless Andreas Nikolaides had lured Gemma to his remote villa in Crete with a single purpose in mind: to punish and humiliate her in revenge for her brother's seduction of a local girl.

He was a man Gemma had cause only to hate--a man who was using her as the instrument of a vengeance she could barely understand.

And yet within hours she was falling into his arms, begging him to make love to her--exactly as Andreas had so arrogantly promised she would!