Laura wasn't surprised when she saw Dirk Thornton with a glamorous brunette: her estranged husband's reputation as a womanizer was well-known to her. But she was shocked by her feelings for Dirk—they weren't dead at all and, what was more, he knew it!

Soon Dirk, a top Sydney criminal lawyer, was pursuing her relentlessly, but Laura couldn't forget that she'd been unable to conceive his child—which meant that there could be no future for them. Why then was she still tempted to accept Dirk's simply outrageous proposal?