Bride for a night

the long version

Alida was only half Cypriot, and when her father tried to force her to marry Darius Valaris, a man she had only met once and had no feeling for, she resisted with all the strength in her power. But it was no use, and she was made to marry him. Being a girl of spirit, though, Alida managed to run away from her unwanted husband the day after the wedding; she escaped to her mother in England and in due course made a completely new life for herself. So after all she was free of Darius. Or so she thought. For years later, in the Bahamas this time, she met Darius again - and found herself more inextricably involved with him than before…