title: Taken Over
author: Jordan, Penny
description: Marriage for a merger...
  
  Joel Howard--arrogant, self-assured and all too aware of his sexual magnetism--reminded Cassie of the unlikelihood of anyone ever loving her.
  
  She would rather have sold her soul to the devil than ally herself with him. So she entertained a proposal from his closest competitor, dangerously underestimating Joel's desire to take over her London-based computer-games company.
  
  "There's only one way I can be sure of your loyalty," Joel told her, "and that's by buying it, the same way Peter Williams intended to buy it--by marrying you."
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  Mills & Boon UK Version
  
  Joel Howard's idea of industrial merger with Cassie's computer-games company was marriage.  Certainly it was nothing more than that she was sure - who could desire such a plain, mousy and inexperienced girl as herself for a real wife?  But then Joel's mother invited her to Italy - and a transformation began!
  
  Hero: Joel Howard
  Heroine: Cassie
  
  