Melisa Wiley discovered her fiancé Ryker Reed was cheating on her with her sister just a day before their wedding. To leave the scum, she approached Ryker's uncle, Darren Reed, for help, who proposed a one-year contract marriage. Just like that, Melisa went from Ryker's ex-fiancée to his aunt-in-law, which was unbeknownst to him as he never met his mysterious uncle and considered him an ordinary gigolo who stole his girl.
Good girl Willow recoiled at her first sight of Connor. He invaded her sanctuary, whispering love sonnets that curdled to ash, but his overtures met only the impenetrable walls. She fled; he pursued. At a gala, he rumpled to his knees and pleaded, "Please take aim at my heart instead of ignoring me."