As long as she could remember, beautiful Niki Sandeman had been fighting back. Fighting against the stigma of illegitimacy. Fighting to redeem the legacy of her glamorous but ill-fated mother. Now she is engaged in the most perilous fight of her young defiant life. The challenge is to beat at their own game the arrogant, powerful Hyland dynasty – her own family, which has always refused to acknowledge her. 

          The prize is control of a mighty business empire. But if she wins in business, she may lose in love. Only if she can break free from her own hunger for recognition and revenge will she be able to give her heart to the one man who can mean more to her than any of life’s obsessions.