A Proper English Girl

Elena Ross is from old money. She grew up in an English manor which had a real castle on its grounds. She's raised to privilege and sophistication. After her first year at Cambridge, she gets a summer job in a Singapore bank. Singapore is a beautiful, orderly, sophisticated city, and she thrives there. Until, that is, a brusque, rude American shows up one day in the office when she's alone. He's wealthy without the proper class which goes along with it, she thinks disparagingly. Her view of his unsophisticated noveau riche behavior wavers when forced to take papers to him on his enormous yacht. His powerful, muscled body sends a sense of breathless admiration through her, but she is outraged by his patronizing attitude and arrogance. And when he makes it clear he intends to dominate her and make her his, her outrage is tempered by a dark, tantalizing curiosity. He delights in baking her mind in a scalding heat such as she's never known or imagined. She doesn't like him at all, but she's helpless before the shocking passion and heat he gives her.