`Marry me or lose everything.' The Italian's outrageous proposal Heiress Isabella Byrne is on a deadline. She has twenty-four hours to wed or she'll lose her inheritance! Her father's protege, hotel magnate Andrea Vaccaro, knows she can't refuse his arrogant proposition for a temporary union. They'll seal the deal at the altar that very night. But with their ever-smouldering attraction bursting into flames, can Izzy risk surrendering to the temptation that awaits her between Andrea's sheets?

Author Biography

Melanie Milburne read her first Harlequin at age seventeen in between studying for her final exams. After completing a Masters Degree in Education she decided to write a novel in between settling down to do a PhD. She became so hooked on writing romance the PhD was shelved and soon after she was signed on to the London office of Harlequin Mills and Boon line, becoming the first not previously published Australian author to be contracted for the Presents line in over a decade.