Book excerpt: Natasha closes her lips tightly, determined to block his passionate kiss, as she gives her defenseless bare body to Alex Mandrakis. She'd carelessly signed that contract to save her adoptive family, but she had no idea it contained such a pitfall! In essence, she has sold herself. Sold herself as security for a loan, in the name of marriage, to the cold-blooded, vain and handsome-as-the-devil Alex. Ignoring her silent pleas for mercy, Alex cruelly steals her purity. For Natasha, it's the beginning of a new tragedy!