Who Wants to Marry a Billionaire?

Who Wants to Marry a Billionaire? Not Nina Alves. With her
full-time job at the DeVere Foundation and a comically dysfunctional family that
keeps her busy and broke, she can't even find time for a coffee date.


Enter Daniel DeVere. Desperate to impress his philanthropist father with
the purchase of an eco-hotel, there is only one problem - his playboy lifestyle
has turned the owner off and he needs to present a more mature image if he is to
have any chance of salvaging the deal.

With sensible Nina as his fake
fiance surely the deal will be secured. Putting on a convincing show in public
is one thing, but the passion they are pretending to have for one another begins
to spill over into their private moments and they are each forced to admit that
they are hoping for something more.

Excerpt:

When they got back
to the resort, Daniel winked at Nina, “Tonight, you are going to learn El
Tamborito.”
“Is that contagious?”
“I hope so.” He led her into the
bedroom. There was a gorgeous traditional Panamanian dress laid out on the bed:
it had a full, heavily pleated skirt, a ruffled top, and amazing embroidery
threaded through it. It was white with red designs. “There’s a festival in town,
and we’re going.”
“If I wear that, people will think that I can really
dance.”
“And you will,” there was a knock on the door, “that’s Luisa, and
she’s going to teach you.”
“What about you?”
Daniel looked at her slyly,
“Oh, I can dance.” He gave her a peck on the cheek. “Have fun, I’ll be back in
two hours to get you.”
Luisa, the dance instructor, joined Nina. “Hola! I’m
Luisa, Nina. I’m going to put on a CD.” She popped a CD into the cabaña’s little
stereo. “First, listen for a couple of minutes.” The rhythms were wonderful,
Nina thought, there were drums, and clapping, and a female singer. “What’s she
singing about?”
“Ah,” Luisa said knowingly, “She sings about the attraction
between men and women, about…the tension between men and women when they want to
do more than dance!”