No emotional involvement, that was Tessa Cadman's rule. And usually, though she enjoyed working with children, she stuck to it. Involvement was the way to heartbreak. At present, however, young Jason wasn't causing her upsets. It was his father, attractive Mark Leyland, who was. He'd asked Tessa to take on marriage to him just like another job. For him it was a convenient solution to his problem. For Tessa it wasn't so simple. She was about as far removed from his kind of woman as he was from her kind of man.