IT WAS ALREADY TOO LATE TO AVOID THE HURT Paul Cypress thrilled audiences the world over with his velvet baritone voice. Accompanying him on the piano was more exciting than Shannon had ever anticipated. But she could not have foreseen her primal response to this darkly magnetic and sensuously handsome man. Despite his complexities, Paul had a power over her that Shannon could neither deny nor resist. Now he wanted her for his wife, but for all the wrong reasons. Even at the risk of losing Paul... even with the driving passion between them ... Shannon could never marry him without love!