Taken Over — Penny Jordan

Marriage for a merger...

Joel Howard--arrogant, self-assured and all too aware of his sexual magnetism--reminded Cassie of the unlikelihood of anyone ever loving her.

She would rather have sold her soul to the devil than ally herself with him. So she entertained a proposal from his closest competitor, dangerously underestimating Joel's desire to take over her London-based computer-games company.

"There's only one way I can be sure of your loyalty," Joel told her, "and that's by buying it, the same way Peter Williams intended to buy it--by marrying you."
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Mills & Boon UK Version

Joel Howard's idea of industrial merger with Cassie's computer-games company was marriage. Certainly it was nothing more than that she was sure - who could desire such a plain, mousy and inexperienced girl as herself for a real wife? But then Joel's mother invited her to Italy - and a transformation began!

Hero: Joel Howard
Heroine: Cassie