t wasn't the first time. The mysterious Brazilian industrialist Ruy Areias de Fonseca had been an important part of Dr. Elaine Welles's girlhood--and her subsequent loss of innocence. Elaine knew there'd be hell to pay if her father, the powerful patriarch of the Welles mining dynasty, were to find out Ruy's true identity. But despite the pain Ruy had caused her and her family, she was falling for him all over again. Somehow she couldn't bring herself to believe that he had come back into her life only to wreak revenge, that his passion wasn't real... .