Prince Nicolo Barbieri's careful negotiations to take over Manhattan's SCB bank were about to deliver. But he wasn't expecting what would come with his latest acquisition: Aimee Black, granddaughter of the bank's current owner–who, it seemed, was pregnant with Nicolo's baby!

Nicolo, a man of old–world honour, felt duty–bound to marry Aimee and give his child his name. But Aimee, a princess of the new world, had other ideas about surrendering herself to this arrogant foreigner, who surely didn't love her