AustLit

'How can I be happy with a man who feels love is an obligation?

'On the day of the wedding, Emma was shocked by her husband Christo's words. This marriage was a marriage of convenience, made by my grandfather, who was worried about me, in exchange for the transfer of real estate! She fled the ceremony and retreated to the island of Corfu. While she was planning her future, Christo appeared, having heard of her whereabouts. When Emma filed for divorce, he told her with icy eyes that he had no intention of divorcing her and that the grandfather had entrusted him with managing the estate. He gave her a condition: "You just have to live with me for one year, as my wife and my niece's mother."' (Publication summary)