Lovely Lara. Cool, composed and gently bred. She never anticipated that the promise she made to her dying mother would have such devastating consequences. Nor would she have imagined herself chained by a rampant physical desire; that she was capable of loving one man, yet at the same time, lusting after another. And it was just as well that she never, ever, was visited with an inkling that she would have to deal with the reality of a vicious murder. Joel Ruperto, self-made millionaire, macho in looks and manners, he hailed from impoverished beginnings. Joel didn't do cool, composed and gently bred females. But he never could resist a woman in need.