Too proud to be bought

the long version

Waitress Zara Evans doesn't belong in glittering high society. That is until she finds herself unexpectedly at an exclusive party, and manages to captivate the most sought-after man in the room, Russian oligarch Nikolai Komarov. For Nikolai, there's something about Zara's beauty that makes her stand out from the first-class crowd. Experience has taught him all women have their price, but he has never encountered anyone like Zara, a young woman who is too proud, too independent, too willful to be bought.