The shamed mistress...Alexa Harcourt only ever spends one night, perhaps two, with Guy de Rochemont - never more. On her arrival at his Italian villa or his Monaco mansion, designer dresses and diamonds await Alexa - the woman who knows she can never be anything more than The de Rochemont Mistress. Guy's name is a byword for wealth and power - and now his duty is to wed. Virgin heiresses covet pride of place in his marital bed. But Alexa - the one woman Guy wants - is also the one woman whose reputation forbids him to take her as his wife...