When my father’s small electronics store collapsed five years ago the financial disaster swallowed us completely, and letters from banks began arriving almost every week with warnings about unpaid loans and possible foreclosure.
Diana never panicked when the situation became desperate because she simply began planning her next move. She eventually discovered that the powerful Bennings family, one of the richest and most influential business dynasties in Savannah, Georgia, was searching for a bride for their only son.
They did not want a celebrity or a wealthy socialite because what they wanted was a quiet obedient woman who would not create trouble.
Their son Julian Bennings had survived a terrible car accident five years earlier, and according to every public report he had been paralyzed from the waist down. After the accident he disappeared from public life almost completely, and rumors described him as bitter, arrogant, and emotionally distant from everyone around him.
Despite those rumors the Bennings family wanted him married to protect the public image of the family and possibly produce an heir in the future.