Young Romy Ellyn was perfectly happy holidaying alone in Mexico – a well-deserved treat made possible by her grandmother’s legacy – but Don Delgado de Avarado y Valcazar, that dark-browed autocrat who disapproved of self-reliant women, made his opinion of her only too clear. Yet when, as the result of an unhappy accident, the two of them were caught in a compromising situation, he insisted that to save her reputation, and more important, his own! – she must agree to pose as his fiancée, and he thereupon whisked her off to his hacienda to be presented to his mother as his future wife. How could Romy get away? And yes, as time went on, did she even want to?