Once, Laurel Sutherland had been to the manner born, while Connor Northrup was the chauffeur's son--and they'd had nothing in common but young, innocent love. Now Laurel was in desperate financial trouble, and the only man who could help was Connor--who had both money and a plan to save the woman he'd never been able to forget. He was proposing marriage, and though Connor feared that Laurel saw it as merely a business arrangement, he still had hope. Because though money couldn't buy him love, maybe it could buy him time--time to show Laurel what had always been clear to him. Namely, that some things were just meant to be...