About the book: 2004 / Life has never been kind to Frances. She lost her mother early, and her stepmother mercilessly exploited her, like Cinderella from a fairy tale. Moreover, her younger half-sister, a pretty blue-eyed blonde, took away her fiancé, whom Frances loved with all her soul, or believed that she loved. But the dark streak is over, and Frances is finally lucky: for a huge reward that will allow her to gain long-awaited independence, she is offered a fictitious marriage by a handsome millionaire…