title: Beloved Intruder
author: Wilson, Patricia
description: "I do not need a guardian, monsieur!"
  
  Beth was over eighteen. She bitterly resented Gaetan Vernais's insistence that she accompany him to Paris and remain under his protection until she was twenty-one and came into her inheritance.
  
  Happy as Beth was with her little flat and low-paying job in England, Gaetan viewed it as a squalid existence. His friendship with her deceased uncle obligated him to see that she had better.
  
  But to Beth his obligation was more of an obsession. She was frightened by his total disregard for her rights, frightened even more by his raw sensuality and power...
  
  Hero: Gaetan Vernais
  Heroine: Elizabeth "Beth" Craig