Alexa Harcourt only ever spends one night, perhaps two, with Guy de Rochemontnever more. On her arrival at his Italian villa or his Monaco mansion, designer dresses and diamonds await her. But Alexa knows she can never be anything more than the de Rochemont Mistress.Guy's name is a byword for wealth and powerand now his duty is to wed. Virgin heiresses covet pride of place in his marital bed. But Alexathe one woman Guy wantsis also the one woman whose reputation forbids him to take her as his wife .