Jenny Lennox didn't believe in love.

Not the lasting kind, anyway. Life was too hard for romance to survive for long. Marriage for money was best, she was sure—or had been until she met Harris Chisholm, earnest and penniless yet willing to gamble on life, love—and her!

Harris Chisholm was a man of his word.

He had promised to deliver Jenny Lennox into the arms of her intended. But could he willingly surrender the woman who'd made him more than himself, the woman who'd become his heart's true friend and partner? "Never!" his soul whispered. "Never…!"