It was understood that Prince Rafael Marconi's brother would wed Alexia Wyndham Jones. So Rafe was shocked to be tasked with escorting the American heiress to his country. Yet it proved the perfect opportunity to discover her real motives for marriage. One ounce of deceit and he'd send the beauty packing. What the royal playboy never bargained for was his fierce attraction to the bride-to-be. Alexia was more surprising, spirited...and sensual than he could have imagined. She was also strictly off-limits. How could Rafe even dare to touch, to take, a woman who was promised to another?