Preston Richards has the Midas touch in everything in his life, except love and marriage. One bad marriage under his belt, has him leery of women. Raising two son and running an empire seems easy, compared to finding a wife and mother for his sons. All he wanted was the perfect family, with a woman who would share his bed as well as his life. Then he saw his angel. She was different. She had a peace he had never known. He also found she frightened him more than most women. She was not a spoiled pampered princess, like his ex-wife. Erica Patterson was struggling raising her small daughter alone, with a past she was trying to overcome or forget. Soon after Easter, a single red rose arrived at her desk each Monday. No card, no name. This was the first kind gesture in her life for a long time and soon became the highlight of her week. She couldn't help falling in love with the mystery man who would make no claim of his kind deed. Then luck would have it she found the big boss man touching her rose, which was the first time their paths crossed. She was safe with the great Preston Richards who stood high above her on his pedestal. A pedestal Preston would soon try hard to climb off of to put her in his bed as his wife. Richards Industries was soon in trouble and a finger is pointed at Erica as well as others that they were embezzlers. Preston knew there was only one way to protect Erica and her daughter. By making them apart of the Richards Family and he would go as far as blackmail to make it so. He was just sure when he had her in his bed they would be the perfect couple and everything else wouldn't matter. They weren't the perfect couple and everything else did matter Could Preston fix it before his life was destroyed? As everything fell apart around him, Preston found he couldn't fix it and he didn't know why. Dark Vows is the second Richard Family novel in the compelling Richards Family novels.