Bartering Her Innocence by Trish Morey will make you cry, will make you laugh and will make you fall in love.
Valentina Henderson has always tried to prove that she is nothing like the mother who abandoned her and her father when she was but a small child. So when she attends her mother’s wedding she acts aloof and cold towards whomever 
approaches her. Including the very handsome Luca Barbarigo, the nephew of her mother’s new husband. And she did the same at another party they met at a few years later. Unfortunately, at a friends wedding she has a one night-stand with him where he compares her to her mother, the woman she least appreciates and she walks out on him.
Luca Barbarigo is used to getting his way with woman, and Valentina is not going to be the exception. After she walked out on him three years ago. Now he has the perfect bait to bring her back to his bed and then walk out on her. Valentina’s mother owes him an incredible amount of money and either she pays him back or she will be evicted from the palazzo.
Now Valentina has no other choice but to see if she can help her mother in some way, but she will only give it three days and then she will return to Australia to the farm with her father. But when she sees that there is no helping her mother she decides to just walk away, that is until Luca brings her father’s ranch into the equation. Either she becomes his mistress to pay her mother’s debt, or she is informed that her father is willing to pay with his ranch. With no other choice she decides to become his mistress, but on her terms. No feelings will be involved if she is in charge.
A month of living together will bring truths out to the forefront for both Valentina and Luca. But secrets that were kept and feeling that were denied may just be able to tear them apart as well as they could bring them together. It all depends on how much they are willing to risk their hearts and how much trust they have in each other.
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Book Info: Publication Date: January 22, 2013 | Series: Harlequin Presents (Book 3115)
“I simply require you to share my bed.”
Luca Barbarigo has lain in wait for three long years, and is now ready to exact his revenge against Valentina Henderson. After one unforgettable night together, she left him with nothing but X-rated memories and the sting of her hand across his jaw. But they are the least of her crimes.…
Valentina swore she’d never see him again, but you don’t turn your back on Luca Barbarigo. Now she must confront the man who devastated her with only her innocence of his claims to barter… What will it cost her to walk away this time?