"I need a wife," Julian Cridell stated

It was not quite what Melanie had in mind when she applied for the position. As a newly graduated teacher, without a job or a home, the advertisement for a companion to a teenage girl had seemed made for her.

Julian's proposal was strictly a business arrangement with a limited time frame. So she agreed. And it might have worked out all right except for one thing.

Melanie had not even considered the possibility that she would foolishly fall in love with the man she called a husband.