She wanted him to take her seriously. Even after her father's death, Perdita had always had a perfectly happy relationship with her attractive young stepmother Olivia. She was certainly no Cinderella!
So when Olivia's chance of making a new life for herself came along, Perdita was the last person to stand in her way. But unfortunately for them both, the terms of Perdita's father's will posed a problem, a problem to which the insufferable Blake Hadwyn seemed to offer the only solution: that Perdita spend the few remaining months until she came of age in his care -- admittedly in the exotic surrounding of a Caribbean island.
But that scarcely consoled Perdita. If only it had been anyone else but him!
She wanted him to take her seriously. Even after her father's death, Perdita had always had a perfectly happy relationship with her attractive young stepmother Olivia. She was certainly no Cinderella!
So when Olivia's chance of making a new life for herself came along, Perdita was the last person to stand in her way. But unfortunately for them both, the terms of Perdita's father's will posed a problem, a problem to which the insufferable Blake Hadwyn seemed to offer the only solution: that Perdita spend the few remaining months until she came of age in his care -- admittedly in the exotic surrounding of a Caribbean island.
But that scarcely consoled Perdita. If only it had been anyone else but him!